English

Adjective

crufty ‎(comparative cruftier, superlative cruftiest)

1. (computing, informal) Relating to or containing cruft.
2. (computing, informal) Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.
3. Unrefined, dirty or worn.
   • 1972, Jan Carew, The wild coast:

     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.

   • 2013, Richard Bowker, The Portal (An Alternative History Novel), page 1614174636:

     I thought I caught him sneering at Kevin and me, in our crufty pants and shoes, but I couldn't be sure.

Derived terms

• cruftiness

References

1. ↑ Peter Samson, AN ABRIDGED DICTIONARY of the TMRC LANGUAGE June 1959 (with 2005 commentary), “The dictionary has no definition for 'crufty,' a word I didn't hear until some years later.”
2. ↑ "crufty" in the Jargon File