† suddyadj.
Obsolete.
Turbid, thick; also figurative ‘muddy’.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > impure or unclear
suddy1587
muddy1600
muddish1658
muddled1828
muddyish1853
impure1860
the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque > specific muddy or turbid
druvya1300
drublya1340
oozya1398
feculent1471
troublous1495
mudlya1500
drumlya1522
troublish?1527
puddled1559
puddly1559
suddy1587
muddy1590
droumy1605
muddled1624
turbid1626
turbidous1628
puddlish1633
muddied1642
scuddy1797
roily1823
blundered1855
jumbly1864
mudded1898
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xiv. 87/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The water of this riuer is for the most part sore troubled, as comming thorough a suddie or soddie more.
1614 S. Latham Falconry i. vii. 27 Between a blacke & a tawnie, as it were of a suddie colour.
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 314 Not as Sope which makes a troubled suddy water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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