cruddle
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English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ʌdəl
Verb
[edit]cruddle (third-person singular simple present cruddles, present participle cruddling, simple past and past participle cruddled)
- (obsolete) To curdle.
- 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
- See how thy blood cruddles at this.
- 1732, William Stephens, Dolӕus Upon the Cure of Gout by Milk-Diet:
- To prevent the Milk from cruddling, ſome Sugar may be mixed with it
References
[edit]- “cruddle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.