curdy

American  

[kur-dee] / ˈkɜr di /

adjective

curdier, curdiest

1. like curd; full of or containing curd; coagulated.

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Other Word Forms

• curdiness noun

Etymology

Origin of curdy

First recorded in 1500–10; curd + -y ¹

Example Sentences

But how different, I ask you, is humble cottage cheese from the creamy, curdy stracciatella inside these fancy-sounding dairy balls?

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2023

What is the exact composition of the curdy mass which forms around and especially underneath the zincs of newly mounted and old gravity batteries.

From Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

The moist precipitate is heavy and curdy; it is decomposed by direct sunlight, becoming violet under its influence.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

The hotch-potch was unexceptionable, the salmon curdy, and the lamb roasted without a fault; and if the red-armed Hebe who attended was somewhat awkward in her motions, she was at least zealous to a degree.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

The bare kitchen had the musky, warm smell of newly-baked bread and of curdy, sweet buttermilk by the afternoon.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah