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crumbs

nounverbinterjectionattested in dialogue

  • //kɹʌmz//

An expression of mild surprise.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of crumbplural of crumb

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of crumbthird-person singular simple present indicative of crumb

interjection

  1. 1

    An expression of mild surprise.

    “You must swear it. By Adamcos,” said Catweazle, drawing his ceremonial knife. “Crumbs! What's that?” asked Carrot, very taken with the knife.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).