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.
Nearby words
cruciformly, crucify, crucis, cruciverbalist, cruck, crud, cruddy, crude, crude oil, crudely, cruden
Origin of crud
Regional variation note
3. See clabber.
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Examples 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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Word Origin and History for crud
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.
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