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curdly

curdly adjective: having a curdled or coagulated appearance.

Adjective

curdly (comparative more curdly, superlative most curdly)

  1. Having a curdled or coagulated appearance.
    • […] a curdly, yeasty head on a Guile of Beer.1776, William Reddington, A practical treatise on brewing: The third edition, page 101
    • [The pus has] a curdly consistence, and a cloudy appearance. If you examine it minutely, you will see one patch, as it were, piled on another; it is formed of several small masses, and does not run into one mass.1837, John Armstrong, Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy, Nature, and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases, page 636

Forms of curdly

comparativemore curdly
superlativemost curdly

Origin of curdly

curdle + -y

Questions about curdly

What does curdly mean?
Curdly means having a curdled or coagulated appearance.
What part of speech is curdly?
Curdly is an adjective.

Words near curdly in the dictionary

  1. curdles
  2. curdless
  3. curdleth
  4. curdling
  5. curdlings
  6. curdly
  7. curdog
  8. curdogs
  9. Curdridge
  10. curds
  11. curds and whey

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