Citations:crumb-cruncher

English citations of crumb-cruncher

Noun: "alternative spelling of crumb cruncher"

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• 1986 — Jude Deveraux, The Temptress, Pocket Books (1986), →ISBN, page 337:

  "They'll certainly be well-fed little crumb-crunchers, that's for sure."

• 1989 — Melodie Adams, The Medicine Man, Harlequin (1989), →ISBN:

  If she were one of those mothers, no doubt she'd be grubbing it up right alongside the little crumb-crunchers.

• 1996 — Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, Dove Books (1996), →ISBN, page 57:

  It was the same story all week; whether posing as a Prue Leith graduate (she'd landed the job to deliver hampers of salmonella and egg sandwiches to posh boardroom lunches) or an opera buff (when the Covent Garden PR director asked her how she would define her understanding of various plots, she'd flirtatiously ad-libbed, 'Just follow the bouncing dagger!') every opportunity was sabotaged by Maddy's little crumb-cruncher.

• 2008 — Cathy Pickens, Hush My Mouth, Thomas Dunne Books (2008), →ISBN, page 204:

  "Isn't that past the crumb-crunchers' bedtime?"

• 2010 — Stephen Arterburn & Fred Stoeker (with Mike Yorkey), Every Man's Marriage: An Every Man's Guide to Winning the Heart of a Woman, WaterBrook Press (2010), →ISBN, page 219:

  Sure, some couples marry for companionship and inform friends and relatives they harbor no desire for crumb-crunchers.

• 2010 — Paige Tyler, Dead Sexy, Ellora's Cave (2010), →ISBN, page 64:

  […] Seems Cia had a baby girl and granny crawled out of whatever hole she's been hiding in to give the little crumb-cruncher a hug. […]