See cruft on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skrot"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "rupiecie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "barachło"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
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],
"word": "szajs"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xlam",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хлам"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "baraxló",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "барахло́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rúxljadʹ",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ру́хлядь"
},
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"code": "ru",
"english": "old stuff",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "starʹjó",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "старьё"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "anything old or of inferior quality",
"word": "fuzuli"
}
],
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"Harvard",
"Tech Model Railroad Club",
"cruft"
],
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}
],
"etymology_text": "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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"To generate cruft."
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"(computing, slang) To generate cruft."
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