Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
curdy . - Crude; raw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Coagulated.
- adjective obsolete Characterized by crudeness; raw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
crude ;raw
Etymologies
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Examples
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Becareful not to scratch the nickel, it makes it look crudy!
Handloaders: What is your take on nickel plated brass for reloading? 2009
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Becareful not to scratch the nickel, it makes it look crudy!
Handloaders: What is your take on nickel plated brass for reloading? 2009
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I am not surprise that DC treated this branch crudy since I bray knew about them.
I need a break 2010
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One thing to keep in mind: Foam earplugs are meant to be disposable and they will get crudy over time.
Make Comfortable Noise-Isolating Earbuds For Less Than A Dollar | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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_Aguardiente_ will serve a good purpose; -- provided the head be not essentially weak, or too inflammable, it ascends you into the brain, and dries you there, as one hath said, all the nervous, crudy vapors that environ it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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One thing to keep in mind: foam earplugs are meant to be disposable and they will get crudy over time.
Lifehacker 2009
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit."
Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit."
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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