different between cruft vs crust
cruft
English
Etymology
Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust +? fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
- Hyphenation: cruft
Noun
cruft (uncountable)
- (computing, slang) Anything old or of inferior quality.
- 2020: The Washington Post
- The document just goes on at length in the same way, picking out the sort of cruft that’s been littering Trump’s Twitter feed since Nov. 3 and tying it all into one stinky package. It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire litany again; simply consider The Post’s Fact Checker articles as an effective rejoinder.
- 2020: The Washington Post
- (computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time; clutter.
- (film, slang) Meaningless and/or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
Derived terms
- crufting
- crufty
- cruftware
- fancruft
Translations
Verb
cruft (third-person singular simple present crufts, present participle crufting, simple past and past participle crufted)
- (computing, slang) To generate cruft. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
References
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crust
English
Etymology
From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek ????? (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), ?????????? (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan ????????????????????????????-? (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit ?????? (kr??, “thicken, make hard”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
crust (countable and uncountable, plural crusts)
- A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
- The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- An outer layer composed of pastry
- Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
- The bread-like base of a pizza.
- (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
- (music) Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
- (Britain, informal) A living.
- Synonyms: daily bread, income, livelihood
- 1999, Norman Longworth, Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century, Psychology Press (?ISBN), page 1:
- Like most of us, I am frequently asked by friends and people I meet in business situations or round the dinner table what I do to earn my crust.
Derived terms
- upper crust
Related terms
- crusted
- crusty
- encrust
Translations
Verb
crust (third-person singular simple present crusts, present participle crusting, simple past and past participle crusted)
- (transitive) To cover with a crust.
- 1662, Robert Boyle, An Account of Freezing
- The whole body is crusted over with ice.
- 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
- Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
- 1662, Robert Boyle, An Account of Freezing
- (intransitive) To form a crust.
Translations
Anagrams
- cruts, curst, curts
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