crud

See also: CRUD

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹʌd/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• con crud
• creeping crud
• cruddy

Translations

dirt, filth or refuse

• Dutch: rotzooi (nl), smurrie (nl), troep (nl), viezigheid (nl)
• Finnish: sakka (fi), moska (fi), saasta (fi)
• Russian: га́дость (ru) f (gádostʹ), дрянь (ru) f (drjanʹ), мура́ (ru) f (murá)
• Spanish: basura (es) f, desperdicio (es) m

heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to ski

• Dutch: smurrie (nl)
• Finnish: nuoskalumi (fi)
• German: Sulzschnee
• Russian: сля́коть (ru) f (sljákotʹ)

feces

• Dutch: stront (nl), schijterij (nl)
• French: merde (fr)
• German: Scheiße (de), Mist (de)
• Portuguese: esterco (pt) m
• Russian: дерьмо́ (ru) n (derʹmó), говно́ (ru) n (govnó)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кака f

  Roman: kaka (sh) f

• Spanish: caca (es) f, mierda (es) f

contemptible person

• Dutch: rotvent (nl) m, smeerlap (nl) m, viezerik (nl) m
• Russian: подо́нок (ru) m (podónok), мразь (ru) f (mrazʹ), сво́лочь (ru) f (svóločʹ), па́дла (ru) m or f (pádla)

slang for disease

• Dutch: smeerlapperij (nl), viezigheid (nl)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} crud (fr), ^{(please verify)} crude (fr)

Verb

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.

Interjection

crud

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

Anagrams

• Curd, curd

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• crudu

Etymology

From Latin crūdus.

Adjective

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

1. raw, uncooked

   Synonym: nicoptu

   Antonym: coptu

2. crude, brutal, cruel

Middle English

Noun

crud

1. Alternative form of crudde

Middle French

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

1. raw; uncooked

   poysson crud ― raw fish

Descendants

• French: cru

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kruð/

Noun

crud m

1. Alternative form of cruth

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
crud	chrud	crud pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crūdus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krud/

• Audio

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Adjective

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

Declension

Declension of crud

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	crud		crudă	cruzi	crude
	definite	crudul		cruda	cruzii	crudele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	crud		crude	cruzi	crude
	definite	crudului		crudei	cruzilor	crudilor

Derived terms

• cruzime

Related terms

• cruditate