crud

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

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

Griswold was less inclined to blame cars and drivers than car manufacturers, who had the technology, he said, to control tailpipe crud, and there were patent records from 1909 to prove it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

No one wants to imagine giant cloud filled with plastic raining crud water all over them.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

“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

I opened up the gym bags and loaded them up with all that crud.

From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds

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

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

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

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

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

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