crumble?

[James C Stalker]

Partridge gives:
crumbles. A set of mishaps causing one person to be blamed: nautical: late
C19-20.
Your "crumble" seems to match this definition with adjustments in number and
causation.

Jim Stalker

neil writes:

> A mention of Sodom in W. E. Henley's correspondence to John Stephen Farmer
> about Slang and Its Analogues:
>
> 8 July 1902
> '... nor, as I think must you hesitate to transcribe and recover Rochester's
> tragedy Sodom, which exists in MS at the B.M. & is a crumble: in every way.'
>
> Can anyone adumbrate crumble?
>
>
> Neil Crawford
> typoG
> Flat A
> 70 Muswell Hill Road
> London
> N10 3JR
>
> +44 (0)20 8444 1234
> neil at typog.co.uk
>



James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University