different between crump vs grump

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mp/
• Homophones: Crump, krump
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

crump (plural crumps)

1. The sound of a muffled explosion.
   • 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

crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)

1. (intransitive) To produce such a sound.

Etymology 2

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Verb

crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)

1. (intransitive, US, medical slang) For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).

Synonyms

• circle the drain

Etymology 3

See crumb.

Adjective

crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked

   a crump loaf

Etymology 4

From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.

Adjective

crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump)

1. (obsolete) Crooked; bent.

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly altered from grum, see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

grump (plural grumps)

1. (informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
2. (informal) A grumpy mood.
   • 2004, Toby Chapman-Dawe, Passport to Performance: Raise Your Business Performance! (page 29)

     If you're not taking Action to change the situation, either sit in a grump or Accept it.

Verb

grump (third-person singular simple present grumps, present participle grumping, simple past and past participle grumped)

1. (informal, intransitive) To complain.
2. (informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.

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