crud

From Middle English crud, crudde (“coagulated milk; curd; any coagulated or thickened substance; dregs”), from Old English crūdan (“to press”). Doublet of curd.

• IPA^(key): /kɹʌd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

crud (countable and uncountable, plural cruds)

1. (uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
   • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 30:

     Crud is caked in the crevices of her jewellery. All of it needs cleaning.

2. (uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
3. (countable) A contemptible person.
4. Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.
5. (uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
6. (uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.

   Synonym: crap

7. (uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
8. (uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.

• con crud
• creeping crud
• cruddy

crud (third-person singular simple present cruds, present participle crudding, simple past and past participle crudded)

1. (transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.
   • 2011, Henry Z. Kister, Distillation Troubleshooting (page 203)

     The covered cardboard boxes held and the packings in the crates suffered no further crudding.

crud

1. Non-vulgar interjection expressing annoyance, anxiety, etc.; sugar, damn.

• Curd, curd

• crudu

From Latin crūdus.

crud m (feminine crudã, masculine plural crudz, feminine plural crudi / crude)

1. raw, uncooked

   Synonym: nicoptu

   Antonym: coptu

2. crude, brutal, cruel

crud

1. Alternative form of crudde

From Old French creu, with the d added back to reflect the Latin crūdus.

crud m (feminine singular crude, masculine plural cruds, feminine plural crudes)

1. raw; uncooked

   poysson crud ― raw fish

• French: cru

• IPA^(key): /kruð/

crud m

1. Alternative form of cruth

From Latin crūdus.

• IPA^(key): /krud/

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crud m or n (feminine singular crudă, masculine plural cruzi, feminine and neuter plural crude)

1. raw, uncooked

   Synonym: necopt

   Antonym: copt

2. (of fruits) unripe

   Synonym: necopt

   Antonym: copt

3. brutal, cruel, barbarous

   Synonyms: brut, crunt, cumplit

• cruzime

• cruditate