cruft /kruhft/
[very common; back-formation from crufty] 1. n. An unpleasant substance. The dust
that gathers under your bed is cruft; the TMRC Dictionary
correctly noted that attacking it with a broom only produces
more. 2. n. The results of shoddy construction. 3. vt. [from
`hand cruft', pun on `hand craft'] To write assembler code for
something normally (and better) done by a compiler (see hand-hacking). 4. n. Excess;
superfluous junk; used esp. of redundant or superseded code. 5.
[University of Wisconsin] n. Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to
geese; that is, at UW one properly says "a cruft of hackers".