easily+crumbled
21friable — friability, friableness, n. /fruy euh beuhl/, adj. easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock. [1555 65; < L friabilis, equiv. to fria(re) to rub, crumble + abilis ABLE] Syn. fragile, frangible. * * * …
22gum eraser — a block of gummy, easily crumbled rubber used to erase smudges, pencil marks, and the like esp. from artwork. * * * …
23Red River — 1. a river flowing E from NW Texas along the S boundary of Oklahoma into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. ab. 1300 mi. (2095 km) long. 2. Also called Red River of the North. a river flowing N along the boundary between Minnesota and North… …
24friable — lit. easily crumbled. In geography, used when describing soils …
25crummy — 1560s, easily crumbled; 1570s, like bread, from CRUMB (Cf. crumb) + Y (Cf. y) (2). The second sense probably accounts for 18c. (and later in dialects) use, of a woman, attractively plump, full figured, buxom. Slang meaning shoddy, filthy,… …
26friable — 1560s, from M.Fr. friable and directly from L. friabilis easily crumbled or broken, from friare rub away, crumble into small pieces, related to fricare to rub. Related: Friability …
27shortening — butter or other fat used in baking, 1796, from shorten make crumbly (1733), from SHORT (Cf. short) in the secondary sense of easily crumbled (early 15c.), which perhaps arose via the notion of having short fibers. This is also the sense behind… …
28crumblier — adj. brittle, falling apart, easily crumbled …
29crumbliest — adj. brittle, falling apart, easily crumbled …
30crumbly — adj. brittle, falling apart, easily crumbled …
