Now listen to me, children. You must be civil and kind to everyone, and never say a cross word to anyone, and never touch a crumb belonging to anyone else.
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Crumb
//kɹʌm//
Synonyms for "crumb" (335 found)
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Closest matches (67)
Strong matches (101)
Related words (167)
Noun(108 words)
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Translations
168 translations across 65 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- купсэ noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ψιχίον noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Arabic
4 entries- بطعة noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- حتّة noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- حتّة noun ((figurative) small amount)
- فتفوتة noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Armenian
2 entries- փշուր noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- փշրանք noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qırıntı noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Belarusian
1 entries- кро́шка noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Bulgarian
4 entries- среда noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- троха́ noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- троха́ noun ((figurative) small amount)
- троша verb (to cover with crumbs)
Catalan
4 entries- engruna noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- mica noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- mica noun ((figurative) small amount)
- molla noun ((figurative) small amount)
Chinese
2 entries- зазазы noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- зазар noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 少許 /少许 noun ((figurative) small amount)
- 屑 noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- 渣 noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- 渣兒 /渣儿 noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Cornish
2 entries- brewyon noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- brewyonen noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Czech
4 entries- drobek noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- drobek noun ((figurative) small amount)
- střída noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- střídka noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Danish
1 entries- krumme noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Dutch
4 entries- kruim noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- kruimel noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- kruimel noun ((figurative) small amount)
- morzel noun ((figurative) small amount)
Finnish
4 entries- murunen noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- murunen noun ((figurative) small amount)
- sisus noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- leivittää verb (to cover with crumbs)
French
3 entries- mie noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- miette noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- paner verb (to cover with crumbs)
Galician
4 entries- frangulla noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- frangulla noun ((figurative) small amount)
- miga noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- migalla noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Georgian
1 entries- ნამცეცი noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
German
4 entries- Brosame noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- Brösel noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- Brösel noun ((figurative) small amount)
- Krume noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Greek
4 entries- τρίμμα noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- ψίχα noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- ψίχουλα noun ((figurative) small amount)
- ψίχουλο noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Hebrew
1 entries- פֵּרוּר noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Hungarian
3 entries- kenyérbél noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- morzsa noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- morzsányi noun ((figurative) small amount)
Igbo
1 entries- ághíríghá noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Indonesian
1 entries- remahan noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Ingrian
2 entries- muro noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- muru noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Irish
4 entries- blúire noun ((figurative) small amount)
- bruscar noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- croí noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- grabhróg noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Italian
4 entries- briciola noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- briciola noun ((figurative) small amount)
- impasto noun (mixture to make industrial chocolate)
- mollica noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Japanese
3 entries- かす noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- 屑 noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- 欠片 noun ((figurative) small amount)
Kazakh
2 entries- қиқым noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- қоқым noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Khmer
1 entries- សាច់ noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Korean
1 entries- 부스러기 noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- күкүм noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Lao
1 entries- ເສດ noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Latin
2 entries- frustum noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- mīca noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Lithuanian
1 entries- trupinys noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Grimmel noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Macedonian
2 entries- тро́шка noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- тро́шка noun ((figurative) small amount)
Māori
1 entries- kongakonga noun ((figurative) small amount)
Nanai
1 entries- пурумсэ noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Old English
1 entries- cruma noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Persian
1 entries- خرده noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Kjreemel noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Polish
2 entries- miękisz noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- okruch noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Portuguese
3 entries- migalha noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- migalha noun ((figurative) small amount)
- miolo (de pão) noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Romanian
4 entries- fărâmă noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- fărâmătură noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- miez noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- sfărâmătură noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Russian
4 entries- кро́ха noun ((figurative) small amount)
- кро́шка noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- кро́шка noun ((figurative) small amount)
- крупи́ца noun ((figurative) small amount)
Scots
4 entries- crum noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- crum noun ((figurative) small amount)
- crum noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- pran noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- criomag noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- criomag noun ((figurative) small amount)
- sprùilleach noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- sprùilleach noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mrvica noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- мрвица noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Slovak
1 entries- drobček noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Slovene
1 entries- drobtina noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Spanish
4 entries- cacho noun ((figurative) small amount)
- miaja noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- miaja noun ((figurative) small amount)
- miga noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Swedish
4 entries- inkråm noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- smula noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- smula noun ((figurative) small amount)
- panera verb (to cover with crumbs)
Tajik
1 entries- реза noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Tarifit
1 entries- awezwiz noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Tatar
1 entries- эпэй йомшагы noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Thai
1 entries- เศษ noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Turkish
2 entries- ekmek içi noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- kırıntı noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кри́хта noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Uzbek
1 entries- uvoq noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Venetan
1 entries- mołéna noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Vietnamese
3 entries- miếng noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- mảnh vụn noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- mẫu noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Waigali
1 entries- pićã noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Welsh
3 entries- briwsionyn noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
- bywyn noun (soft internal portion of bread)
- mwydion noun (soft internal portion of bread)
Yiddish
1 entries- ברעקל noun (small piece of biscuit, cake, etc)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
There is a crumb in his beard.
Source: tatoeba (4457946)
The bird found a few morsels of bread, of which it would only eat a crumb, and gave the rest to the other starving sparrows which it called up.
Source: tatoeba (7740928)
Wherever a loving hand had strewn bread crumbs for the birds, the little bird only ate one crumb and gave the rest away.
Source: tatoeba (7740930)
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