Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To coo; croodle.

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Examples

  • Dat Exoff Valdeez be comin wid a huge crood-oil enema, jus to unclog dem toobz.

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  • I can't recommend Mr. King's Dark Tower stories to the Sainted Mother-too much "crood and vulgah" language, but I am enjoying them.

    for Charlotte Holly 2006

  • You see the crood o 'men, sae, they're a' roarin 'thegither.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Toon-Clark i 'the middle there, wi' his hands up, threatenin 'to send for the pileece, an' a 'the crood yalpin' at him like as mony dogs.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • He lut it drap on the flure wi 'a clash like a clap o' thunder, an 'I heard a crood o' fowk scurryin 'awa' frae oor bedroom door.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Of course the Essy I writ for the Social Science Society is a more finisheder production than the one on Cats, which was wroten when my mind was crood, and afore I had masterd a graceful and ellygant stile of composition.

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • Of course the Essy I writ for the Social Science Society is a more finisheder production than the one on Cats, which was wroten when my mind was crood, and afore I had masterd a graceful and ellygant stile of composition.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887

  • They bring with them, and of crood [6] great plentee,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Classification of beneficiaries under special acts, etc.Proviso. discharged that no such relative of any such soldier or sailor shall belong to this class or be aided as such if the municipal authorities o-rantino; the aid shall have crood and sufficient reason to believe that such soldier or sailor deserted, or that he is still living and wilfully absent from his family.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • a michty man like Milton -- ane whase bein 'was a crood o' hermonies

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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