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▪ I. curdy, a.|ˈkɜːdɪ|
Also 6–7 cruddy, -ie.
[f. curd n. + -y.]
1. Full of curds.
1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. 2 Olde chese, or verye cruddye chese. 1574Newton Health Mag. 32 The thick and curdy Milke..commonly called Beastings. 1882Mrs. Chamberlain W. Worcs. Words 8 Cruddy, curdled; full of curds.
2. Full of curd-like coagulations; resembling curded milk; curd-like in consistency or appearance.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 4 In the..cruddy firmament. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 29 His cruell woundes with cruddy bloud congeald. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 106 (Qo.) A good sherris sacke..ascendes mee into the braine, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy [Fo. cruddie] vapors which enuirone it. 1678Phil. Trans. XII. 950 Making it [tin] thick and cruddy, that is, not so ductile, as otherwise. 1797Pearson ibid. LXXXVIII. 24 The precipitate did not render solution of hard soap at all curdy. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 46 A white curdy precipitate. 1887Baring-Gould Gaverocks I. xvi. 233 The moon passed behind a white curdy cloud. 1937E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 65/1 Cruddy paper, i.e. mottled.
3. Of salmon, etc.: Full of curd (see curd n. 2 b).
1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1891) 118 There they [the Salmon] are found newe, fresh, fatte and cruddye. Ibid. 125 A cruddye matter like creame about the fishe [oysters]. 1859Lever Davenport Dunn xxxvi, His curdiest salmon declined, his wonderful ‘south-down’ sent away scarcely tasted. 1892H. G. Hutchinson Fairway Island i, We'll eat this [salmon] that had the tide-lice on him. He'll be fine and curdy.
▪ II. † curdy, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. adj.]
trans. To make curd-like, to congeal. (But perh. in quot. curdied is a misprint for curdled.)
1607Shakes. Cor. v. iii. 66 Chaste as the Isicle That's curdied by the Frost from purest Snow. |