Crow, “I have a CROW to pick with you,” i.e., an explanation to demand, a disagreeable matter to settle. Sometimes the article picked is supposed to be a bone.
Crowsfeet, wrinkles which gather in the corners of the eyes of old or dissipated people.
Crug, food. Christ’s Hospital boys apply it only to bread.
Crumbs, “to pick up one’s CRUMBS,” to begin to have an appetite after an illness; to improve in health, circumstances, &c., after a loss thereof.
Crummy, fat, plump.—North. In London street slang, lousy.
Crummy-doss, a lousy or filthy bed.
Crumpet-face, a face pitted with small-pox marks.
Crunch, to crush. Perhaps from the sound of teeth grinding against each other.
Crush, to run or decamp rapidly. Crush down sides, run to a place of safety, or the appointed rendezvous.—North Country Cant.