crud

[ kruhd ]

noun

1. Slang.
   1. a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
   2. a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
   3. something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
   4. prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
   5. a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body:

      jungle crud.

   6. any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
   7. venereal disease, especially syphilis.
   8. Vulgar. dried semen.
2. Dialect. curd.
3. Dialect. clabber.

verb (used with or without object)

, crud·ded, crud·ding.

1. Dialect. to curd.

crud

/ krʌd /

noun

1. a sticky substance, esp when dirty and encrusted
2. an undesirable residue from a process, esp one inside a nuclear reactor
3. something or someone that is worthless, disgusting, or contemptible
4. the crud
   the crud a disease; rot

interjection

1. an expression of disgust, disappointment, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of crud¹

1325–75; Middle English; earlier form of curd

Word History and Origins

Origin of crud¹

C14: earlier form of curd

Example Sentences

This means your case is grimy, too—between housing your earbuds and being tossed around in the bottom of your bag, they can collect a ton of crud.

From Popular-Science

The resulting oomph let testers bust crud and hold an edge on hardpack.

From Outside Online

In the coming weeks, Percy will bore a smooth cavity in one of those rocks and get below the surface crud.

From Science News

Moving the door may have dropped some crud on your clean track, so repeat this process as necessary.

From Popular-Science

If crud remains, they will tell you the rest is not removable.

From Washington Post

Yes, mold—that slimy, amorphous crud that shows up when things get damp.

From The Daily Beast

As if to underscore the point, he is just back from Iraq and was coughing from what he called “Baghdad crud.”

From The Daily Beast

Certainly all that crust and crud on his painting was exciting.

From The Daily Beast

And he went to another house and begged a bit of cheese crud, and when he went back he wanted to give half of it to the bull-calf.

From Project Gutenberg

Figure 122 of Klein's seventh plate was correctly quoted as illustrative: "crud" preceded "niger."

From Project Gutenberg

Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.

From Project Gutenberg

But he held the cheese crud in his hand, and said: "I'll squeeze your heart like the flint-stone."

From Project Gutenberg