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cruftiness

noun

Etymology

From crufty + -ness.

  1. derived from villūtus — “having shaggy hair”
  2. derived from velu — “hairy, furry”
  3. derived from vluwe
  4. compounded as cruft — “crust + fluff”
  5. suffixed as crufty — “cruft + y”
  6. suffixed as cruftiness — “crufty + ness”

Definitions

  1. Quality of being crufty.

    • Regardless of one's opinions on Sendmail's cruftiness, it's unquestionably a powerful and well-supported piece of software.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cruftiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA