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▪ I. crud|krʌd|
[Obs. and dial. var. of curd n.]
1. See curd n. 1.
2. A despicable or undesirable person or thing; nonsense, rubbish. Cf. crut3. slang (orig. U.S.).
1940Amer. Speech XV. 212 A ‘crud’ is a fellow who is slovenly in his personal appearance and with his possessions. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §825/23 Unattractive girl,..crud, crumb, [etc.]. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 153/2 Crud, food, usually unpalatable. 1955‘T. Sturgeon’ in ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF 2 (1956) 147 Would you say that..the writer of all this crud, believes..in what he writes? 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 23 Crud, rubbish. 1966‘K. A. Saddler’ Gilt Edge i. 9 Can't stand the man. A real crud.
b. A real or imaginary disease. slang (orig. U.S. Army).
1945Reader's Digest Apr. 109 We also have what the men call ‘crud’, a skin outbreak like ringworm. 1945Time 13 Aug. 76 Jungle rot; New Guinea crud; the creeping crud: GI names for any and every kind of skin disease. 1947Amer. Speech XXII. 304/2 Crud (the), this word..is used more commonly than any other single Army or Navy term for imaginary disease. 1948Ibid. XXIII. 295/1 In the Pacific theater, crud was colloquial for all kinds of diseases, though it was most often used for the various forms of fungus infection. 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern yerself Scouse 56, I got Bombay crud, I am suffering from looseness of the bowels.
c. An undesirable impurity, foreign matter, etc. (see quots.). slang.
1950Gloss. Terms Nuclear Sci. (Nat. Res. Council, U.S.) 41/1 Crud, a slang term referring to an undesirable impurity or foreign material arising in a process. 1959New Scientist 26 Mar. 696/1 ‘Crud’ (Chalk River Unidentified Deposit), an impolite word applied to rust deposited on the fuel elements in the high radiation zones which exist in the heart of a reactor. 1962in D. E. Barnes et al. Newnes Conc. Encycl. Nuclear Energy 160/2 In corrosion problems crud may be defined as particulate corrosion products..deposited on the surfaces of circulating water systems... The term is also applied to..many other undesirable residues..appearing in plant processes.
▪ II. crud(de, cruddle, cruddy
obs. or dial. ff. curd, curdle, curdy. |