curd
pronunciation
How to pronounce curd in British English:
UK [kɜ:d]
How to pronounce curd in American English:
US [kɜrd]
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- Noun:
- a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd
- coagulated milk; used to made cheese
Word Origin
- curd
- curd: [14] Curd began life as crud, a word which has survived in its own right. In the 15th century it underwent a process known as metathesis, by which the sounds r and u became transposed, producing curd. A derivative of this, dating from the 16th century, is curdle. The word’s ultimate ancestry is not known, although some consider that Gaelic gruth may be related.
- curd (n.)
- c. 1500, metathesis of crud (late 14c.), originally "any coagulated substance," probably from Old English crudan "to press, drive," from PIE root *greut- "to press, coagulate," perhaps via ancestor of Gaelic gruth (because cognates are unknown in other Germanic or Romance languages).
Example
- 1. The vitiligo patient can eat bean curd much what .
- 2. An estonian breakfast curd cheese on a wheat bloomer known locally as ' cheese on toast ' .
- 3. Then filter the curd through a sieve .
- 4. You can 't eat hot bean curd in hurry .
- 5. In the first quarter cheese and curd exports were down by 13 % ; butter was down by 84 % .