crump

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sound of a muffled explosion.
    — And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last crump’ was the end of the war and would we ever hear it burst safely behind us?
动词 v.
  1. To produce such a sound. intransitive
    — “Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.”
  2. To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash). US,intransitive
    — I can only be in one place at a time, so sometimes I just have to say, “Listen, I’ve got this other patient that’s crumping down the hall.[”]
形容词 adj.
  1. Hard or crusty; dry baked Scotland,UK,dialectal
    — a crump loaf
  2. Crooked; bent. obsolete
    — Crooked backs and crump shoulders.

词形变化

crumps plural crumps present,singular,third-person crumping participle,present crumped participle,past crumped past more crump comparative most crump superlative more crump comparative most crump superlative crumps present,singular,third-person crumping participle,present crumped participle,past crumped past

词源

词源 1
Onomatopoeic.
词源 2
See crumb.
词源 3
From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”).
Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.
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