a. Obs. [f. SUD(S) + -Y.] Turbid, thick; also fig. ‘muddy.’
1587. Harrison, Descr. Brit., xiv. 87/1, in Holinshed. The water of this riuer is for the most part sore troubled, as comming thorough a suddie or soddie more.
1614. Latham, Falconry (1633), 27. Between a blacke & a tawnie, as it were of a suddie colour.
1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vindic., 314. Not as Sope which makes a troubled suddy water.
