▪ I. curdy, a.
(ˈkɜːdɪ)
Also 6–7 cruddy, -ie.
[f. curd n. + -y.]
1. Full of curds.
| 1528 Paynell Salerne's Regim. 2 Olde chese, or verye cruddye chese. 1574 Newton Health Mag. 32 The thick and curdy Milke..commonly called Beastings. 1882 Mrs. 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.
| 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 4 In the..cruddy firmament. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. v. 29 His cruell woundes with cruddy bloud congeald. 1597 Shakes. 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. 1678 Phil. Trans. XII. 950 Making it [tin] thick and cruddy, that is, not so ductile, as otherwise. 1797 Pearson ibid. LXXXVIII. 24 The precipitate did not render solution of hard soap at all curdy. 1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 46 A white curdy precipitate. 1887 Baring-Gould Gaverocks I. xvi. 233 The moon passed behind a white curdy cloud. 1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 65/1 Cruddy paper, i.e. mottled. |
3. Of salmon, etc.: Full of curd (see curd n. 2 b).
| 1603 Owen 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]. 1859 Lever Davenport Dunn xxxvi, His curdiest salmon declined, his wonderful ‘south-down’ sent away scarcely tasted. 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. |
▪ 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.)
| 1607 Shakes. Cor. v. iii. 66 Chaste as the Isicle That's curdied by the Frost from purest Snow. |