CRUMP
What does "CRUMP" mean?
To make or be a dull, heavy, crunching or exploding sound.
Meanings
- To make a muffled thudding or crunching sound, as boots in snow or a distant shell. Their boots crumped through the frozen crust.
- A dull, heavy thud or the sound of an exploding shell. A crump sounded somewhere over the ridge.
- To perform krump, an energetic, expressive style of street dance (often spelled 'krump'). The dancers crumped in a tight circle on the sidewalk. informal
Word origin
Of imitative origin, echoing a dull crunching or thudding sound; related to the older English 'crump' meaning crooked or bent.
Remember it
CRUMP is CRUNCH plus a thumP - the word lands like the heavy, muffled sound it names.
A little poem
Snow takes the loud world-
each boot a soft crump, swallowed
before it can echo.
haiku
What it teaches
Some words are just the sound dressed in letters: language often only points at what the ear already knows.
Quick facts
What does CRUMP mean?
To make or be a dull, heavy, crunching or exploding sound.
Is CRUMP a valid word?
Yes — CRUMP is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CRUMP?
CRUMP has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CRUMP come from?
Of imitative origin, echoing a dull crunching or thudding sound; related to the older English 'crump' meaning crooked or bent.
What can CRUMP teach us?
Some words are just the sound dressed in letters: language often only points at what the ear already knows.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.