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cruftier

cruftier is the comparative form of crufty.

Meaning of crufty

Adjective

crufty (comparative cruftier, superlative cruftiest)

  1. (informal) Relating to or containing cruft.
  2. (informal) Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.
  3. Unrefined, dirty or worn.
    • All these years I been living with you we en't go nowhere. You want a beast of burden, not a woman. Because you is a big, crufty, niggerman with the strength of an ox and a mind big and empty like midday sky you think me is the same.1972, Jan Carew, The wild coast

Questions about cruftier

What is cruftier the comparative form of?
Cruftier is the comparative form of crufty.

Words near cruftier in the dictionary

  1. cruffins
  2. cruffs
  3. crufomate
  4. cruft
  5. crufted
  6. cruftier
  7. cruftiest
  8. cruftiness
  9. crufting
  10. crufts
  11. cruftware

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cruftier (page history and authors); crufty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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