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crug

crug noun: bread.

Noun

crug (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Bread.
    • He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.1820-23, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia

Questions about crug

What does crug mean?
Crug means bread.
What part of speech is crug?
Crug is a noun.

Words near crug in the dictionary

  1. cruftiness
  2. crufting
  3. crufts
  4. cruftware
  5. crufty
  6. crug
  7. Cruickshank
  8. Cruickshanks
  9. Cruikshank
  10. Cruikshankian
  11. Cruikshanks

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