英语词汇crummy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crummy
词源	crummy. Hoboes begging for food on the road often received bread and other baked goods that were so stale they were liter- ally crummy, had begun to turn to crumbs. Crummy is recorded in this sense in the early 1900s and within 25 years or so meant “anything cheap or inferior.”
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