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crud noun- a contemptible person US, 1930
Originally Scottish dialect for “excrement.” - The crud pulled out his money to try to bribe me. [Steve Canyon comic strip] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 14, 24 March 1947
- No bums like these cruds. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 123, 1957
- The furious District Attorney of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who describes his town’s Easter vacation visitors as “College cruds,” put it too mildly. — Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, p. B3, 5 April 1967
- “Little crud” says Galvin. “He’ll pump that up into a load of bullshit. Page six of the scandal sheet, just past the bikinis and the big tits.” — A Salute to the Great McCarthy, p. 79, 1970
- Do as you’re telt [told]. Wee crud! — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- rubbish, filth, shit US, 1943
Originally Scottish dialect crud (curdled matter); the first appearance, noted by J.E. Lighter, is 1508 in the UK, but not truly in currency in this sense untill the 1940s. - [T]he oil and crud getting washed into the canal. — The Times Magazine, p. 24, 23 February 2002
- dried or sticky semen US
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 52, 1967
- any sexually transmitted infection US, 1951
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 52, 1967
- a common cold or the flu ANTARCTICA
- — Cool Antarctica, 2003: “Antarctic slang”
- a notional disease, covering many ailments, real and imaginary US, 1932
- — American Speech, p. 304, December 1947: “Imaginary diseases in army and navy parlance”
- snow that does not produce good snowboarding US
- — Elena Garcia, A Beginner’s Guide to Zen and the Art of Snowboarding, p. 121, 1990
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