crud

It is not just a renovation after the fire, but a complete overhaul including removing decades of crud and soot built up since the last restoration.

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

Then, follow it up with about a cup of white vinegar — the combination will fizz up, breaking down any lingering crud.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2022

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

He cleared the crud from his vision just in time to see the boy run off, the rattraps clattering like castanets on the toes of his shoes.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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