Crummy vs Scrummy - What's the difference?
crummy | scrummy |
(informal) bad; poor
(dated) Full of crumb or crumbs; crumby.
(dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
Small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. A common term when referring to a vehicle with a compartment separate from the cab, housing the silvicultural, logging or mining crew during transport.
Regional English
(childish, or, colloquial, UK) delicious
* 1930 , Ralph Hale Mottram, The English Miss
* 2004 , Alan Murphy, Scotland
* 2006 , Julie Wilson, Our Spanish Winters
As adjectives the difference between crummy and scrummy
is that crummy is bad; poor while scrummy is delicious.As a noun crummy
is small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. A common term when referring to a vehicle with a compartment separate from the cab, housing the silvicultural, logging or mining crew during transport.crummy
English
Adjective
(er)- Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "crummy" (bad, poor) is often applied: job, weather, hotel, thing, town, life, movie, food, world, school, idea, person.Noun
(crummies)scrummy
English
Adjective
(er)- Of course one did get some scrummy things to eat abroad, that cook did not, somehow, produce at home; and the people looked different...
- There's an all day menu, with lots of fish dishes such as fish soup, tuna, and monkfish. Pudding might include a scrummy rosemary panacotta.
- After mopping up the last bits with my scrummy nan breads we settled down to watch the DVD of "The Two Towers" from "Lord of the Rings"...