Meaning

1 senses

  1. (slang)To generate cruft.

Origin

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built

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.

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Forms

crufts, crufting, crufted, crufted
Base formcruft · to cruft
3rd person singularcrufts
Present participlecrufting
Past simplecrufted
Past participlecrufted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycruft
he, she, itcrufts

Past simpleLesson

all personscrufted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crufted
he, she, ithas crufted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cruft

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cruelB1cruellyB2crueltyB2cruiseA2cruisercrumbC1

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