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crud

[kruhd] / krʌd /


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Here again, the fire offered an opportunity to rediscover the glories that lay beneath decades of crud and soot.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2024

“I suspect the internet is going to be filled with crud just all over the place,” Chris Albon told me.

From New York Times Jul. 18, 2023

"It drained the crud out of some people. They just said, 'I'm done with it,'" she said.

From Salon Jan. 27, 2023

Unless you clean them regularly, crud builds up in a way that would be embarrassing if anyone else saw it.

From Fox News Jan. 16, 2022

When I did not scrub all the crud off a pot, Gay would say “Reject” and hand it back.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Thou shalt eat crudded cream   All the year lasting, And drink the crystal stream   Pleasant in tasting; Whig and whey whilst thou lust,   And bramble-berries, Pie-lid and pastry-crust,   Pears, plums, and cherries.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

A little crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste, &c. &c.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

In the north-east a great crudded cloud lifted its soaring towers into the blue heart of the awful aether.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Like great battle-craft, black beneath and equipped with dreadful artillery,—their dazzling decks heaped and laden with ocean-gleaned merchandise of crudded white,—they charge menacingly across the illimitable plains as though to overwhelm the granite ranges.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Thou shalt eat crudded cream All the year lasting, And drink the crystal stream Pleasant in tasting; Whig and whey whilst thou lust, And bramble-berries, Pie-lid and pastry-crust, Pears, plums, and cherries.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson




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