cruddy a also crudly O Sup² ~ 1 obs exc dial (1509-1678); EDD crud sb 1: cruddy, crudly adj 1,2.
   1 Having a curdled appearance or texture; softened, disintegrating.
   1874 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 47 [The salmon] was almost black outside from long sojourn in the fresh water, had lost all its silvery sheen and when boiled next day the flesh was found to be colourless and cruddy. P 245-55 Poached eggs will run away all cruddy unless you put a drop of vinegar in the water. P 148-64 Ice cream gets right crudly after it's been frozen again. T 253/4-66 [In making fat soap with lye] you'd salt it, separate it, because when you salt it, it'd get right crudly. P 148-67 Crudly ice or snow crunches underfoot after a mild or rain. C 71-127 Cruddy was used to describe milk that had turned sour, especially [when added to] coffee or tea.
   2 Crispy and dry; crumbling.
   1964 Evening Telegram 4 June, p. 13 Talkin' about fish, though, ever notice how fish is nice an' cruddy around August? When they gets that way they're better stuffed and roasted. P 148-64 The fish is right cruddy [dry and well-cooked]. C 69-2 When our fathers came with a load of wood, we would cut off the frankum. We would warm it so as to make it soft, and then chew [it] for gum. After a while, however, it became crudly and hard.

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