α. Middle English–1600s 1800s– cruddy, 1500s–1600s cruddie, 1500s–1600s cruddye, 1600s crudy.
β. 1500s– curdy.
单词 | curdy |
释义 | curdyadj.α. Middle English–1600s 1800s– cruddy, 1500s–1600s cruddie, 1500s–1600s cruddye, 1600s crudy. β. 1500s– curdy. 1. Full of curd-like masses or coagulations; resembling curdled milk, esp. in being sour or spoiled, or in being clumpy or clotted in texture or appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > coagulating > coagulated liveryeOE livered?a1300 coagulatec1386 curdya1398 clotteredc1405 curdeda1425 quailed1440 congealed1541 clustereda1547 cloddered1558 clodded1562 cluttered1577 quarry1587 curdled1590 quarred1599 settled1600 clotted1605 coagulated1633 curdly1664 α. β. 1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 24 The precipitate did not render solution of hard soap at all curdy.1887 S. Baring-Gould Gaverocks I. xvi. 233 The moon passed behind a white curdy cloud.1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward (1979) i. 66 The black curdy water floated below.2018 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 6 Feb. 5 Charred broccolini and curdy sweetcorn as small/share plates.a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xlviii. 261 Þe substaunce of þe stones [i.e. testicles] is imade of vddry and cruddy fleisch,..nouȝt ful sad and hard. 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) i. 8 Whan that Aurora dyde well appere In the depured ayre and cruddy fyrmament. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E3v His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congeald. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 95 A good sherris sacke..ascendes mee into the braine, dries me there all the foolish, and dull and crudy [1623 cruddie] vapors which enuirone it. View more context for this quotation 1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 950 Making it [sc. tin] thick and cruddy, that is, not so ductile, as otherwise. 1727 P. Shaw & E. Chambers tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. ii. 99/1 If there be the least of it left, in melting the tin, it makes it brittle, and cruddy, and diminishes much of its ductility. 1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 65/1 Cruddy paper, i.e. mottled. 2. Of milk, cheese, etc.: full of curds; containing or yielding curd. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > curd curdy1528 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 2 Olde chese, or verye cruddye chese. 1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica i. xix. 126 The curdy part of Milk is only Nutritive, and the greatest part of it dissolves in the Stomach into a chylous Juice. 1797 J. Bell Anat. Human Body II. i. 93 Milk contains in its curdy part a perfect gluten, which is easily separated. 1823 New-Hampsh. Statesman 19 May The curdy substance of which cheese is formed, abounds more in clover, and new or cold and moist pastures. 1882 E. L. Chamberlain Gloss. W. Worcs. Words 8 Cruddy, curdled; full of curds. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 13 704 A fresh, evenly distributed, curdy buttermilk. 2005 Times 28 May (Travel) 4/2 First comes scuta, a fresh curdy sheep's milk cheese dressed with pine nuts and Istrian olive oil. 3. Of salmon or other fish: containing curd, full of curd (see curd n. 2c). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [adjective] > full of curd curdya1613 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [adjective] > full of curd curdya1613 curded1862 a1613 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) xv. 118 The Samons of Tyvy..at all tymes in the Yeare..are found newe, freshe, fatte & cruddye. 1769 Compan. Leisure Hour 19 The curdy salmon swims with eager haste, And quits her fry to crown the rich repast. 1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 11 I have met with white-fleshed trout, firm, curdy, and good. 1892 H. G. Hutchinson Fairway Island i We'll eat this [salmon] that had the tide-lice on him. He'll be fine and curdy. 1939 Times 27 Feb. 17/1 When the fish [sc. salmon] is ‘crisp, curdy, and creamy’, as it should be, a sauceboat of liquor in which it was cooked..is the choice of the judicious gastronome. 1984 Spectator 30 June 38/2 A fresh salmon poached into curdy pink flakes. 2007 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall River Cottage Fish Bk. 487 The texture [sc. of red mullet] is special, too—its rich, curdy flakes inhabiting pretty much the perfect halfway house between white and oily fish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † curdyv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. Perhaps: to form (something) by congealing. Cf. curdle v. 4a.Many editors of Coriolanus instead regard curdied in the passage below as a scribal or compositorial error for candied (or alternatively for curdled or curded). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iii. 66 Chaste as the Isicle That's curdied by the Frost, from purest Snow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.a1398v.a1616 |
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