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Definition: Crump |
CrumpVerb1. Make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants. 2. Bombard with heavy shells. 3. Explode heavily or with a loud dull noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crump" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Crump "Don't you wish you may get it, Mrs. Crump? " Grose says Mrs. Crump, a farmer's wife, was invited to dine with Lady Coventry, who was very deaf. Mrs. Crump wanted some beer, but, awed by the purple and plush, said, in a half-whisper, "I wish I had some beer, now." Mr. Flunkey, conscious that his mistress could not hear, replied in the same aside, "Don't you wish you may get it?" At this the farmer's wife rose from table and helped herself. Lady Coventry, of course, demanded the reason, and the anecdote soon became a standing joke. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Ground movement, perhaps violent, due to failure under stress of ground surrounding underground workings usually in coal, so named because ofsound produced. See also:bump. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CRUMP. One who helps solicitors to affidavit men, or false witnesses.--'I wish you had, Mrs. Crump;' a Gloucestershire saying, in answer to a wish for any thing; implying, you must not expect any assistance from the speaker. It is said to have originated. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crump, Tennessee."
Synonyms: CrumpSynonyms: crunch (v), scrunch (v), thud (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curvature | Adjective: curved; Verb: curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; Verb: vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; (distorted); oblique; circular. |
Distortion | Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic. |
Violence | Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Rep. Edward Hull Crump, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | One panoramic photo of Tremont St., showing Shreve, Crump and Low's McCarthy's store and the end of West St., Boston, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Crump" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Crump" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.33% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.04% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.78% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crump" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crump | Last name | 8,000 | 1,512 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Crump, TN (city, FIPS 18620) |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crump": Corey-crump, Covey-crump. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crump"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صوت طاحن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیچیده (Abstruse, Crackly, Indirect, Intricate, Obscurant, Recondite, Revolute, Unintelligible), منحنی (Bent, Cycloid, Round), چین دار, کج (Askance, Askew, Awry, Crank, Devious, Gauche, Indirect, Lopsided, Sidelong, Sinister, Slant, Snafu, Thwart, Wry), خم کردن (Bend, Crank, Crook, Flex, Hunch, Incline, Limber, Reeve, Wry), دارای چین وچروک . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Éclatement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zuhanás (crash, dive, diving, falling, plump, slump, thud, thump), púpos (gibbose, gibbous, have a hump, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunchbacked, hunched), meggörbült (falcated, twisted), lövedék (ammunition, ball, bullet, missile, munition, projectile, round, shell, shot, slug), hajlott (aquiline, bended, bent, crooked, curved, hooked, leant), görbe (bandy, bow, crooked, curve, curved, devious, diagram, hooked, out of the straigh, rectification, tortuous), felrobbanó, esés (alignment, descent, downfall, droop, drop, ebb, fall, falling, flop, gradient, setback, spill, tumble), erős ütés (bash, clunk, heavy blow, slog, slug, soak, swipe, thump), becsapódó lövedék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | croag-chassagh (crump-footed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpcray ударять (bang, beat, biff, dub, jab, jounce, knock, rap, slugged, slugging, strike, thump, whang). (various references) Хрустіти, Хрусткий, Хрускіт, озсипчастий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crump": crumped, crumpet, crumpets, crumping, crumple, crumpled, crumples, crumplier, crumpliest, crumpling, crumply, crumps. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crump": scrumptious, scrumptiously, uncrumple, uncrumpled, uncrumples, uncrumpling. (additional references) | |
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"Crump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crume, crumpe, crumps, rcmp, scrump. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crump" (pronounced kru"mp) |
| 4 | -r u" m p | frump, grump, rump, trump. |
| 3 | -u" m p | bump, chump, clump, dump, hump, jump, lump, plump, pump, slump, stump, sump, thump. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-m-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: rump. | |
-2 letters: cum, cup, cur, pur, rum, ump. | |
-3 letters: mu, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-m-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: crumps, cuprum. | |
+2 letters: crumped, crumpet, crumple, crumply, cuprums, pumicer. | |
+3 letters: clumpier, computer, crumpets, crumping, crumpled, crumples, dumpcart, plectrum, pumicers, spectrum. | |
+4 letters: composure, computers, creamcups, creampuff, crumplier, crumpling, dumpcarts, epicurism, operculum, plectrums, practicum, puromycin, recompute, spectrums, supremacy, uncrumple. | |
+5 letters: campground, composures, compounder, compulsory, creampuffs, crumpliest, epicardium, epicurisms, imprudence, manuscript, metacarpus, operculums, pancratium, paramecium, practicums, precompute, principium, procambium, procumbent, proscenium, puromycins, recomputed, recomputes, recoupment, supermacho, supermicro, uncrumpled, uncrumples. | |
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