crumblings

[ kruhm-blingz ]

plural noun

1. crumbs; crumbled bits.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crumblings¹

crumble + -ing ¹ + -s ³

Example Sentences

This is the kind of couple that saves their crumblings for behind closed doors in an effort to maintain their bragging rights.

From Salon

Our existing architecture offers few points for comparison with those vast edifices whose very ruins resemble the crumblings of mountains rather than the remains of buildings.

From Project Gutenberg

They are found in Ceylon, in Thibet, and in Burmah among the crumblings of primordial rock.

From Project Gutenberg

He ran to me, as he ever did, for farings, and I fed him with crumblings out of my jacket pocket—"moolings" Maisie Lennox called them—which he ate out of my hand, a pretty thing to see in so noble a beast.

From Project Gutenberg

In their present magnificent form, they could not have existed; and whatever their forms, the frequent falls and crumblings away, which are of little consequence in the low crags of Hastings, Dover, or Lyme, would have been fatal to the population of the valleys beneath, when they took place from heights of eight or ten thousand feet.

From Project Gutenberg