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Definition of Crumbly
1. Adjective. Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder. "Crumbly cookies"
Definition of Crumbly
1. a. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Definition of Crumbly
1. Adjective. easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crumbly
1. easily crumbled [adj -BLIER, -BLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumbly
Literary usage of Crumbly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward R. Carter (1894)
"Among the prosperous men of Georgia, is Floyd H. crumbly, of Atlanta. ...
In commencing this business, Mr. crumbly started at the lowest round of the ladder ..."
2. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"I warned him not to walk at all near the edge because of the crumbly soil, and
hollow overhanging summits, and he said, "What an easy place pour se suicider ..."
3. Battling for Social Betterment: Southern Sociological Congress, Memphis by James Edward McCulloch (1914)
"THE RELIGIOUS BASIS OF SOCIAL SERVICE FATHER PETER A. crumbly, OFM, MEMPHIS, TENN.
SOCIAL service is a methodical endeavor to regenerate and ameliorate ..."
4. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Hokusai by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1901)
"crumble of the crumbly line until it broadens out into «i set of broken ink masses
on the periphery ; second, the strong mussing of the dark parts into the ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1802)
"On the top was the sod, or common turf; then a layer of crumbly earth, which was
at first brittle, but, on being exposed to the air, acquired a great ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1872)
"All moist and crumbly, being in good working condition. (These were not noted
individually. ... Moist and nearly as crumbly as in Dactylis. Lotus, 1 and 2. ..."
7. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1880)
"The castle is not at all crumbly, but in excellent repair, though so venerable.
There are rooks cawing about the shapeless patches of their nests, ..."
8. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1847)
"Section of iron ore in cross-cut trench 1.5 miles southwest of Sulphur Springs
Southeast limb of small anticline Ft. In. Ore, soft, crumbly, argillaceous 7 ..."
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