creeping crud

== English == === Noun === creeping crud (slang) Any of various diseases. 1946, Belleau Wood (Aircraft carrier), "Flight Quarters.": The War Story of the U.S.S. Belleau Wood (page 67) In the heat of the tropics a variety of skin irritations — collectively dubbed the “creeping crud” — gripped with unrelenting tenacity the hides of the tender.