"crumbly" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-crumbly.ogg [Australia] Forms: crumblier [comparative], more crumbly [comparative], crumbliest [superlative], most crumbly [superlative]
Etymology: From crumble + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|crumble|y}} crumble + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} crumbly (comparative crumblier or more crumbly, superlative crumbliest or most crumbly)
  1. Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable. Categories (topical): Age Translations (easy to break): ψαφαρός (psapharós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), трошлив (trošliv) (Bulgarian), ронлив (ronliv) (Bulgarian), hauras (Finnish), mureneva (Finnish), murustava (note: of food) (Finnish), murea (Finnish), bröselig (German), murria (Ingrian), rappia (Ingrian), frush (Scots), damol (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-crumbly-en-adj-uwCDnv~X Disambiguation of Age: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52

Noun

Audio: En-au-crumbly.ogg [Australia] Forms: crumblies [plural]
Etymology: From crumble + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|crumble|y}} crumble + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} crumbly (plural crumblies)
  1. (slang, derogatory) A decrepit old person. Tags: derogatory, slang Categories (topical): Age
    Sense id: en-crumbly-en-noun-O9aLMOeD Disambiguation of Age: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 35 65 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 37 63

Inflected forms

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