sb. (a.) Sc. and north. Also 8 cromie. [f. crum, CRUMB a. crooked + -ie = -Y4 dim. and denominative, as in blacky, brownie, cowdie, doddie, etc.]
A. sb. 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.
1868. D. Gorrie, Summ. & Wint. Orkneys, i. 95. Old men, with grave visages leading high-boned 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.
