Although the term [cruft ] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of fancruft, those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.
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Recently, this misgloss has led to an impossible interpretation of the Beowulf poet's allusion to beornas on blancum warriors on white horses and their racing on fealwe mearwas fallow horses in the episode of the Danes and Geats coming back from the mere.
1756, [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society: Or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society.[…], London: […] M. Cooper[…], OCLC 1102756444, [https://archive.org/details/vindicationofnat00burk/page/[…] I ſhall only throvv the ſtrong Point of Light upon that Part vvhich coincides vvith Roman Hiſtory, and of that Part only on the Point of Time vvhen they received the great and final Stroke vvhich made them no more a Nation; […] I ſay nothing of the Loppings made from that Stock whilſt it ſtood; nor from the Suckers that grevv out of the old Root ever ſince./mode/1up page […] I ſhall only throvv the ſtrong Point of Light upon that Part vvhich coincides vvith Roman Hiſtory, and of that Part only on the Point of Time vvhen they received the great and final Stroke vvhich made them no more a Nation; […] I ſay nothing of the Loppings made from that Stock whilſt it ſtood; nor from the Suckers that grevv out of the old Root ever ſince.]: