The story
- Old English · derived fromcrūdan“to press”
- Middle English · inherited fromcrud
- English todaycrud
From Middle English crud, crudde (“coagulated milk; curd; any coagulated or thickened substance; dregs”), from Old English crūdan (“to press”). Doublet of curd.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcrūdan all →
crowd
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.