curd
/kɜː(ɹ)d/
curd noun: the part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
Noun
curd (countable and uncountable, plural curds)
- The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
- Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23
- Dahi.
- A solid piece of coagulated scrambled egg.
- The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
- Broccoli should not be allowed to remain till the compactness of the head is broken, but should always be cut while the 'curd,' as the flowering mass is termed, is entire1865, Fearing Burr, The Field and Garden Vegetables of America
- This beautiful vegetable [Romanesco broccoli] looks rather like a green cauliflower designed by a mathematician and has lime-green 'spiralled' curds. The curds are nutty and tasty, and romanesco is worth growing just for its good looks. You can use romanesco in the same ways that you would normally...2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 162–163
Verb
curd (third-person singular simple present curds, present participle curding, simple past and past participle curded)
- To form curd; to curdle.
- To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
- Does it curd thy blood
To say I am thy mother?c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Does it curd thy blood
Proper noun capitalized: Curd
Curd (plural Curds)
- A surname.
curd meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
curd in Hindi
- part of milk that coagulates
- दही dahī
curd in Tamil
- part of milk that coagulates
- தயிர் tayir, பெருகு peruku
curd in Marathi
- part of milk that coagulates
- दही dahī
curd in Urdu
- curd, yogurt
- دہی dahī
More languagesFewer languages
- curd in Bengali
- দই doi
- curd in Telugu
- పెరుగు perugu
- curd in Malayalam
- തൈര് tairŭ
- curd in Kannada
- ಮೊಸರು mosaru
- curd in Odia
- ଦହି dahi
- curd in Assamese
- দৈ doi
- curd in Arabic
- خُثَارَة ḵuṯāra, أَقِط ʔaqiṭ
- curd in Persian
- لور lur, دلمه dalame
Examples of curd in a sentence
- In cheese making, milk coagulates into curds that become cheese.
- Taoyuan County’s Tahsi (大溪) is famous for its soft and sweet bean curds.
- Hufu is sort of like tofu (bean curd) except it is designed to look and taste like, uh, human.
Forms of curd
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | curds |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | curds |
| present participle | curding |
| past participle | curded |
| past | curded |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Curds |
Origin of curd
From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.
Words formed from curd
Phrases with curd
Words that rhyme with curd
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Questions about curd
- What does curd mean?
- Curd means the part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
- What is curd in Hindi?
- Curd in Hindi is दही (dahī). See Curd meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is curd?
- Curd can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce curd?
- Curd is pronounced /kɜː(ɹ)d/.
- What is the plural of curd?
- The plural of curd is curds.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: curd (page history and authors); Curd (page history and authors); دہی (Urdu) (page history and authors); തൈര് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಮೊಸರು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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