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Crump vs Grump - What's the difference?

crump | grump |

In intransitive terms the difference between crump and grump

is that crump is to produce such a sound while grump is to be grumpy.

As an adjective crump

is hard or crusty; dry baked.

As a proper noun Crump

is {{surname|from=Middle English}.

crump

English

Etymology 1

Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
    • a crump loaf
  • (obsolete) crooked; bent
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Crooked backs and crump shoulders.

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a muffled explosion.
  • * 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
    • [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
  • * 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
    • Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
  • * 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
    • Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
  • * 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News. Taking cover on Sderot front line
    • "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce such a sound.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=William Grimes, title=In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“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.” }}

    grump

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a habitually grumpy or complaining person
    • First used in print by Daniel Defoe in 1727.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to complain
  • to be grumpy