crud

[kruhd]

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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.

Origin of crud

1325–75; Middle English; earlier form of curd

Regional variation note

3. See clabber.

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Related Words for crud

grime, dirt, smut, slime, muck, scum, dregs, waste, skank

Examples from the Web for crud

Contemporary Examples of crud

As if to underscore the point, he is just back from Iraq and was coughing from what he called “Baghdad crud.”
Scott Pelley Is the Anti-Katie Couric
Howard Kurtz
May 3, 2011
Certainly all that crust and crud on his painting was exciting.
My Conversation with John Updike
Barbara Probst Solomon
January 29, 2009

Historical Examples of crud

Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
Figure 122 of Klein's seventh plate was correctly quoted as illustrative: "crud" preceded "niger."
The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4
Various

British Dictionary definitions for crud

crud

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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Word Origin and History for crud

"nonsense, rubbish," 1940, U.S. slang; originally 1920s army and college student slang for "venereal disease." Said to be a metathesis variant of curd, which actually makes it an unconscious return to the original Middle English form of that word (see curd). As G.I. name for "disease of any and every sort" it is attested from 1945.