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crud

/kɹʌd/
Meanings
  • noun

    1. Mass of unwanted or discarded material or waste.

    - "The kitchen was filled with crud after the party."
    - "He spent hours cleaning the crud from the garage."
  • noun

    2. (Informal) Food that is unappetizing or of poor quality.

    - "I was served a plate of crud at the restaurant."
    - "Don't eat that, it's just crud."
Pronunciation
  1. /kɹʌd/



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Synonyms

crap
Rhymes
Words rhyming with crud
mud , pud , bud , blood
Variants
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crud , cruddy , cruds , crudded , crudding
Etymology
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Originally an abbreviation of 'crap' or 'crudities', which referred to food that was considered unappetizing or of poor quality.

Trivia
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  1. The term crud was first used in the late 1800s to describe food that was considered unappetizing or of poor quality.

  2. In computing, crud refers to data that is invalid, corrupted, or otherwise unusable.

Related Concepts
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  1. waste: Crud is often associated with waste or unwanted material.

  2. disgusting: Crud is often used to describe things that are unappetizing or disgusting.

How to Memorize "crud"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a pile of unwanted or discarded material to remember the meaning of crud.
    - Imagine a kitchen filled with unwanted leftovers to remember the food sense of crud.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word crud with unwanted or discarded material.
    - Remember crud as food that is unappetizing or of poor quality.

  3. mnemonics

    - Use the mnemonic 'Crud stands for Can't Really Understand Delicious' to remember the food sense.
    - Use the mnemonic 'Crud is Unwanted Rubbish Dump' to remember the material sense.

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