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oggbashan said:
Unlikely. Crudités in English came with Nouvelle Cuisine in the 1970s.

Crud was around long before then.
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Probably described the primordial sludge out of which we crawled.:D

(edited my spelling of the 'p' word. thanks Ogg)
 
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MichaelinChina said:
Probably described the primordal sludge out of which we crawled.:D
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The original meaning of crud was curd - curdled milk - and is late Middle English. In British English its current meaning came from the GIs in England during World War 2 - according to one of my large Oxford Dictionaries.

But primordial sludge was crud.
 
oggbashan said:
The original meaning of crud was curd - curdled milk - and is late Middle English. In British English its current meaning came from the GIs in England during World War 2 - according to one of my large Oxford Dictionaries.

But primordial sludge was crud.
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Interestingly I had to correct a typo; I'd spelt 'crud' as 'curd'.

so..was a 'turd' ever a 'trud' ogg?
 
oggbashan said:
Unlikely. Crudités in English came with Nouvelle Cuisine in the 1970s.

Crud was around long before then.
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crud /krd/ n.
Also (US slang) crut /krt/. [Earlier form of CURD n.]

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Excerpted from Oxford Talking Dictionary
Copyright © 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 
Handley_Page said:
crud /krd/ n.
Also (US slang) crut /krt/. [Earlier form of CURD n.]

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Excerpted from Oxford Talking Dictionary
Copyright © 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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what about 'trud' then?
 
MichaelinChina said:
what about 'trud' then?
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In several Slavic languages trud means labour. I believe it's the name of one of the main Russian newspapers. And, growing up in The Cotswolds, I can also recall some people using trud (rather than trod) as the past tense of tread.
 
SamScribble said:
In several Slavic languages trud means labour. I believe it's the name of one of the main Russian newspapers. And, growing up in The Cotswolds, I can also recall some people using trud (rather than trod) as the past tense of tread.
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See where my mind was. I read the last few posts thinking trud was turd. I guess I have a shitty outlook. :D
 
Saxon_Hart said:
See where my mind was. I read the last few posts thinking trud was turd. I guess I have a shitty outlook. :D
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"Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice..."
Others, following a more scatological eschatology, expect it to be buried in its own turds.
 
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