Cruft vs Croft - What's the difference?
cruft | croft |
(computing, informal) Anything old or of inferior quality.
(computing, informal) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time; clutter.
A fenced piece of land, especially in Scotland, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production and usually with a crofter's dwelling thereon.
* 1819 , Keats, :
(archaic) A carafe.
As a noun cruft
is (computing|informal) anything old or of inferior quality.As a proper noun croft is
, from the common noun croft, and from places named croft.cruft
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(wikipedia cruft)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* crufting * crufty * cruftware English terms with unknown etymologiescroft
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
- The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft ;