Bent, curved, or twisted out of shape; crooked or distorted.
From Middle English and Old English origins, possibly related to German 'krumm' meaning crooked. The word has Germanic roots expressing the concept of curvature or deformation.
This obscure adjective shows up in medieval English texts describing everything from bent fingers to warped wood—it's the ancestor of 'crumb' and reveals how describing broken things led to describing tiny broken pieces of bread.
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