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Curd

//kɜː(ɹ)d// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc. countable, uncountable

    "Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away."

  2. 2
    coagulated milk; used to make cheese wordnet
  3. 3
    Dahi. India, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd wordnet
  5. 5
    The coagulated part of any liquid. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants. countable, uncountable

    "Broccoli should not be allowed to remain till the compactness of the head is broken, but should always be cut while the 'curd,' as the flowering mass is termed, is entire"

Verb
  1. 1
    To form curd; to curdle. intransitive
  2. 2
    To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. transitive

    "Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.

Etymology 2

From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.

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