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crumb

/kɹʌm/ sustantivo C1

En español: miga, cacho, migaja, miaja

  1. A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). (countable, uncountable) · The pigeons were happily pecking at crumbs of bread on the ground.
  2. A small piece of any other solid substance. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A bit, small amount. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · a crumb of comfort
  4. The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate. (countable, uncountable)
  6. A nobody; a worthless person. (countable, slang, uncountable)
  7. A body louse (Pediculus humanus). (countable, slang, uncountable)

Plural crumbs

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“Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: “you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 50 · B2
“They have their tails in their mouths—and they’re all over crumbs.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 78 · B2
“You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would all wash off in the sea.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 78 · B2
He had picked up every crumb that had been left from his former meals, and was beginning to eat the matting which covered the floor of his cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1086 · C1

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