breadcrumb

English

Wikipedia

Sense 1. Tiny pieces of bread.

Sense 2. A trail of hyperlinks, displayed as a guide to make navigating easier.

Alternative forms

• bread crumb

Pronunciation

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Noun

breadcrumb (plural breadcrumbs)

1. (used mainly in the plural) A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
2. (Internet) See breadcrumbs.

Synonyms

• (tiny piece of bread): crumb

Derived terms

• attribute breadcrumbs
• bread-crumby
• breadcrumb sponge
• breadcrumb trail
• location breadcrumbs
• path breadcrumbs

Translations

tiny piece of bread

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面包屑 (cmn), 面包屑 (cmn) (miànbāoxiè)

• Esperanto: panero (eo)
• Finnish: leivänmuru (fi) (fallen from bread), korppujauho (fi) (deliberately made)
• French: miette (fr) f; panure (fr) f;
• German: Brotkrümel (de) f, Brotkrume (de) f
• Greek: ψίχα (el) (psícha) f, τρίμμα (el) (trímma) n, ψίχουλο (el) (psíchoulo) n
• Hebrew: פירור (pirur) m
• Hungarian: kenyérmorzsa (hu), prézli (hu)

• Icelandic: brauðmylsna (is) f
• Italian: briciola (it) f
• Japanese: パン粉 (ja) (pan-ko)
• Malay: serdak roti (ms)
• Portuguese: migalha (pt) f,farelo (pt) m
• Russian: хлебная крошка (ru) (xlébnaja króška) f, крошка (ru) (króška) f
• Spanish: miga (es), migaja (es) f
• Turkish: ekmek kırıntısı (tr)
• Vietnamese: bột chiên xù (vi)

Internet — see breadcrumbs

Verb

breadcrumb (third-person singular simple present breadcrumbs, present participle breadcrumbing, simple past and past participle breadcrumbed)

1. (transitive, cooking) To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking.

Synonyms

• bread
• crumb

Derived terms

• breadcrumbed
• breadcrumbing

Translations

to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food

• Finnish: leivittää (fi)