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

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, just like the oil that’s refined into gasoline, and burning it can put out some of the same nasty, not-nice-for-humans crud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

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

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023

In the bathroom, I stared at the white tile hexagons on the floor and saw nothing but the crud in between them.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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

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

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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 Scully, W. C. (William Charles)