cruft
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club.[1] Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft.[2] Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.
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Noun[edit]
cruft (uncountable)
- (computing, informal) Anything old or of inferior quality.
- (computing, informal) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time; clutter.
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Translations[edit]
anything old or of inferior quality
Verb[edit]
cruft (third-person singular simple present crufts, present participle crufting, simple past and past participle crufted)
- To generate cruft
References[edit]
- ^ Peter Samson, AN ABRIDGED DICTIONARY of the TMRC LANGUAGE June 1959 (with 2005 commentary)
- ^ “Bronze Tablet Erected in Cruft Memorial Laboratory”, in (Please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 26 November 2014
