crump

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɹʌmp/ Homophones: Crump, krump Rhymes: -ʌmp === Etymology 1 === Onomatopoeic. ==== Noun ==== crump (plural crumps) The sound of a muffled explosion. ==== Verb ==== crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped) (intransitive) To produce such a sound. === Etymology 2 === See crumb. ==== Adjective ==== crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump) (UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked a crump loaf ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp. ==== Adjective ==== crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump) (obsolete) Crooked; bent. ==== Verb ==== crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped) (intransitive, US, medical slang) To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash). ===== Synonyms ===== circle the drain == Old English == === Alternative forms === crumb === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz === Adjective === crump bent, stooped, crooked ==== Descendants ==== English: crump == Romanian == === Alternative forms === crumpănă crumpir clompir === Etymology === Borrowed from Austrian German Grundbirne, Hungarian krumpli or Serbo-Croatian krumpir. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkrump/ Hyphenation: crump === Noun === crump m (plural crumpi) (dialectal, Transylvania, Banat) potato Synonyms: cartof, barabulă, picioică === Further reading === “crump”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026