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cruftiness

cruftiness noun: quality of being crufty.

Noun

cruftiness (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Quality of being crufty.
    • Regardless of one's opinions on Sendmail's cruftiness, it's unquestionably a powerful and well-supported piece of software.2002, Michael D. Bauer, Building Secure Servers with Linux, page 205

Origin of cruftiness

From crufty + -ness.

Questions about cruftiness

What does cruftiness mean?
Cruftiness means quality of being crufty.
What part of speech is cruftiness?
Cruftiness is a noun.

Words near cruftiness in the dictionary

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

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