crud
noun
[ krʌd ]
• a substance which is considered unpleasant or disgusting, typically because of its dirtiness.
• "use a good soap compound to remove accumulated crud"
• nonsense.
• "the usual crud which passes itself off as a smart twenty-something comedy"
• a contemptible person.
Origin:
late Middle English: variant of curd (the original sense). The earliest modern senses, ‘filth’ and ‘nonsense’ (originally US), date from the 1940s.
CRUD
noun
• the four basic operations (create, read, update, and delete) of data storage, regarded collectively.
• "we'll create a simple database on which we will be performing CRUD operations"
Origin:
1980s: acronym from create, read, update, delete or create, retrieve, update, delete .
