Contextualizebeta

breadcrumby

adj

Etymology

From breadcrumb + -y.

  1. derived from *grū-mo-✻ — “something scraped together, lumber, junk; to claw, scratch”
  2. inherited from *krumô✻
  3. inherited from cruma — “crumb, fragment”
  4. inherited from crome
  5. compounded as breadcrumb — “bread + crumb”
  6. suffixed as breadcrumby — “breadcrumb + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling breadcrumbs, especially in texture.

    • Use the 'pulse' button to turn these ingredients into a coarse sort of breadcrumby, dry mixture.

  2. Scattered with breadcrumbs.

    • He changed into these in a dark breadcrumby cubbyhole at the rear of the shop.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for breadcrumby. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA