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decrumb

verb

Etymology

From de- + crumb.

  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. prefixed as decrumb — “de + crumb”

Definitions

  1. To remove the crumbs from.

    • A couple of hours later I had the washing going, the children fed and dressed and the kitchen floor semi-decrumbed in a mad effort to come to terms with this rotten day, when the phone rang.
    • I don't want my runner stopping off to decrumb a table or empty an ashtray.
    • She nearly dropped the toast rack she was decrumbing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decrumb. 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