scrud

scrud

1. slang A real or imagined illness, ailment, disease, or infection. I've just had this persistent scrud ever since I came back from my vacation. He came back from the jungle with some nasty-looking tropical scrud on his arm.
2. dated slang Venereal disease. It was nearly considered a badge of honor to come back from shore leave with some kind of scrud in your pants.
3. slang Filth or refuse that is between a solid and liquid state. A portmanteau of "scummy crud." Our bath has a nasty ring of scrud all around the base.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

scrud

n. a serious disease; a sexually transmitted disease. (Military.) Poor dumb Charlie can’t tell scrud from crotch rot.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be fed up to the back teeth
  • afflict
  • afflict (one) with (someone or something)
  • afflict with
  • magic bullet
  • never in (one's) wildest dreams
  • never in your wildest dreams
  • the treatment is worse than the disease
  • treatment
  • a cure worse than the ailment
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