cruddy
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˈkrʌdi/
- Informal
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malito
- I woke up feeling cruddy after staying up too late last night.
Examples
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I don't wanna get all cruddy.
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I just feel kind of cruddy.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was cruddy, of course, but nothing like the way I would feel a few days later, with the dirt from the road embedded in the skin of my hands and neck, the sweat from between my legs and under my arms always there, the stench of my sneakers and feet rising from below, all this rancid smell of myself permeating my shirt and dungarees and floating around me like a cloud.
Academic text (2009) -
She decided to stay home because she felt too cruddy to go to work.
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After eating that questionable food, I really felt cruddy for the rest of the day.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not well because of illness
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4.1
Feeling sick and likely to throw up
21
5.3
Feeling slightly ill and not your usual self
18
1.0
Feeling slightly sick or uncomfortable
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5.9
Feeling slightly unwell, upset, or irritable
3
6.5
Feeling a little unwell and not your usual self
1
6.7
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Feeling ill or not well
Feeling like you are about to throw up
Antonyms
How Ill
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cruddy also comes from the same informal crud, because people say they 'caught the crud' when they have a cold or stomach bug. So, feeling 'cruddy' means feeling a little sick or unwell, as if you have the 'crud' inside you.