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Crud

Sounds like: crud Food / Culture Food / older family speech

Meaning

What it means

Curd or cottage cheese-related food word.

Crud is a regional food-language word related to curds/cottage cheese, connected to cruds and crudded milk.

Usage

Use it like this

“My gram used crud for cottage cheese.”
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Food/culture vocabulary from Western Pennsylvania English references.

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