crummie, crummy, n. (a.) Sc. and north.
(ˈkrʌmɪ)
Also 8 cromie.
[f. crum, crumb a. crooked + -ie = -y4 dim. and denominative, as in blacky, brownie, cowdie, doddie, etc.]
A. n.
1. A cow with ‘crumpled’ or crooked horns; often a kind of proper name for any cow.
| 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 111 My Cromie is a useful cow. a 1774 Fergusson Drink Eclogue Poems (1845) 52 Crummie nae mair for Jenny's hand will crune. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Let. ii, The crummie drank without sitting down. 1876 D. Gorrie Summ. in Orkneys I. 39 Old men leading highboned crummies equally grave. |
2. A staff with a crooked head.
| 1808–25 Jamieson, Crummie-staff, crummie-stick. 1832–53 Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs) Ser. ii. 111 The carlins coost their crummies til't, Sae vauntingly they vapour'd. |
B. adj. Having crooked or crumpled horns.
| 1878 Cumbrld. Gloss., Crummy, crum-horn't, [having] horns turned towards the eyes. |