cruddy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English cruddi, equivalent to crud + -y.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cruddy (comparative cruddier, superlative cruddiest)
- (slang) Full of crud.
- (slang) Crummy, lousy, worthless.
- Because I didn't study for my test, I feel like I'm gonna make a pretty cruddy grade.
- (slang) Annoying, irritating.
- Some children's cartoons sure have cruddy theme songs.
- (obsolete) Coagulated.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
- His cruell wounds with cruddy blood congeal'd.