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# crud

«crud» in Mova's school dictionary: **dirt, grime or a sticky mess** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Crud is dirt, grime or a sticky mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crud/#m1)

2) (old use, dialect) Crud is curd, the thick soft part of sour milk that is made into cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crud/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales crud means cheese curd, a plain food that a poor man begs for

### examples

- He begged a bit of cheese crud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crud/#x1)
- The sink was full of greasy crud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crud/#x2)
- He gave half of the crud to the bull-calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crud/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crud» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crud/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.