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Crummy

That's crummy, that's jolly good. She's a crummy woman, a fine handsome woman. Crummy means fat or fleshy. The crummy part of bread is the fleshy or main part. The opposite of “crusty” = ill-tempered.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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