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structural failure that somehow makes cheese, cookies, and old cottages more desirable.
means Tending to break into small fragments or crumbs, lacking firm cohesion.
from From 'crumble,' a frequentative form of the older verb 'crimble' — itself rooted in Old English 'cruma,' meaning a crumb or fragment of bread. The '-le' suffix added the sense of repeated action, so 'crumble' is literally 'to keep making crumbs.' The adjective 'crumbly' simply tacked on '-y' to describe anything prone to doing exactly that. The same 'cruma' has cousins across the Germanic family, including Dutch 'kruim' and German 'Krume,' all clustered around the homely business of breadcrumbs.
- cheese law
- Wensleydale and feta crumble by design, not decay
- word root
- From Old English gecrymman, meaning to break into fragments
- physics
- Brittle solids fail fast with little warping first
- baking trick
- Cold butter creates the crumbliest, most prized pastry
digestive biscuits — british biscuits that crumble easily when broken, invented in 1892
parmesan cheese — italian hard cheese that naturally crumbles into shards when broken
soil in sahara desert — extremely crumbly, low-moisture sandy soil across north africa