Also 6–7 cruddy, -ie. [f. CURD sb. + -Y.] 1. Full of curds.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., 2. Olde chese, or verye cruddye chese.
1574. Newton, Health Mag., K ij b. The thicke and curdie Milke … commonly called Biestings.
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. Shaks., 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 [Tinn] 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.
3. Of salmon, etc.: Full of curd (see CURD sb. 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].
