crud
[ kruhd ]
/ krʌd /
noun
Slang.
- a deposit or coating of refuse or of an impure or alien substance; muck.
- a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person.
- something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible.
- prevarication, exaggeration, or flattery.
- a nonspecific, imaginary, or vaguely defined disease or disorder of the body: jungle crud.
- any unpleasant external ailment, disorder, or the like, as a skin rash.
- venereal disease, especially syphilis.
- Vulgar. dried semen.
Dialect. curd.
Dialect. clabber.
verb (used with or without object), crud·ded, crud·ding.
Dialect. to curd.
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Origin of crud
1325–75; Middle English; earlier form of curd
regional variation note for crud
3. See clabber.
Words nearby crud
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Example sentences from the Web for crud
As if to underscore the point, he is just back from Iraq and was coughing from what he called “Baghdad crud.”
Certainly all that crust and crud on his painting was exciting.
Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.
Figure 122 of Klein's seventh plate was correctly quoted as illustrative: "crud" preceded "niger."
British Dictionary definitions for crud
crud
/ (krʌd) slang /
noun
a sticky substance, esp when dirty and encrusted
an undesirable residue from a process, esp one inside a nuclear reactor
something or someone that is worthless, disgusting, or contemptible
the crud a disease; rot
interjection
an expression of disgust, disappointment, etc
Word Origin for crud
C14: earlier form of curd
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