Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soft white cheese made from soured milk.
- noun Porridge; gruel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Meal and cold water, or sometimes milk, stirred together so as to form a thick gruel; hence, any porridge.
- noun Curds from which the whey has been pressed out, mixed with butter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Gruel or thinporridge - noun A Scottish form of
cottage cheese
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An 'they cry' crowdie 'evermair. cho: Aince crowdie, twice crowdie,
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"Barley crowdie, " Ian said, gazing proudly at the cup as though it were his firstborn child.
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He left me lying on my pillows, wondering what to do with the cup of crowdie.
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Mungo, priet (tasted) a soup o 'the crowdie, an' wi 'that he seiz't haut
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Mungo, priet (tasted) a soup o 'the crowdie, an' wi 'that he seiz't haut
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Sure enough, at crowdie-time, the men were seen coming aft, with Maxwell in the van carrying a bowl, on the pretext of a complaint against the cook.
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Sure enough, at crowdie-time, the men were seen coming aft, with Maxwell in the van carrying a bowl, on the pretext of a complaint against the cook.
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Sure enough, at crowdie-time, the men were seen coming aft, with Maxwell in the van carrying a bowl, on the pretext of a complaint against the cook.
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Mungo, priet (tasted) a soup o 'the crowdie, an' wi 'that he seiz't haut
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He teuk the horn3 from Mungo, priet4 a soup o 'the crowdie, an' wi 'that he seiz't haut o' the man by baith shouthers ere the blastie5 raught6 for's knife.
chained_bear commented on the word crowdie
"Newspapers gave up their fashion pages for columns headed 'What Women Can Do', and recipes for sole, lobsters, cream, eggs and butter were replaced with earnest advice on 'cheap brown soup' or crowdie made with the liquid in which mutton had been boiled with onions, oatmeal, salt and pepper."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 319
(this was at the start of World War I)
January 18, 2017