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   crud

   /krʌd/

   noun

   • 1. a substance which is considered unpleasant or disgusting, typically because of its dirtiness: "use a good soap compound to remove accumulated crud"
   • ▪ heavy snow on which it is difficult to ski: "there's no way I can ski crud"
   • 2. nonsense: "the usual crud which passes itself off as a smart twenty-something comedy"
   • 3. a contemptible person.

   Word Origin late Middle English: variant of curd (the original sense). The earliest modern senses, ‘filth’ and ‘nonsense’ (originally US), date from the 1940s.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cruddy adjective

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • C

     3

   • R

     1

   • U

     1

   • D

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