curdy
English
Etymology
curd + -y
Adjective
curdy (comparative curdier, superlative curdiest)
- Like, or full of, curd; coagulated.
- 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
- The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
- 159?, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
- A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery.
- 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Anagrams
- crudy