Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
crowdie .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland A thick
gruel ofoatmeal andmilk or water. - adjective nonstandard
crowded
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Examples
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I have a hunch the “clique” comment about OD may be related to the podcast, sometimes it seems a little chummy and “in crowdy”, but in the context, it doesn’t bother me.
Pathfinder Modern Pledge Drive Leaves Me Ambivalent « Geek Related 2010
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The pictures display a simple, white and elegant interior design which is about to get crowdy once the workers will fill the place, no doubt.
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According to Nigel Waters in his review of the book - A crowdy crystal ball The Globe and Mail Book Section for July 17, 2004 -- Surowiecki is able to show that, for certain types of problems, the group is wiser than the individual.
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Santorini and Mykonos are worthwile to visit, very beautiful but very crowdy in August ..
palace 2007
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Encroachments by the locals staying in Mahipalpur had occupied the way, 10 am office hours highly crowdy, 1pm school hours space less, 5 pm employees of Gurgaon MNCs coming back home.
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Encroachments by the locals staying in Mahipalpur had occupied the way, 10 am office hours highly crowdy, 1pm school hours space less, 5 pm employees of Gurgaon MNCs coming back home.
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Comments it will be a special line for workers, pupils, students, old people specially the whom are living in terraferma, which can only be taken by special subscription card owners during crowdy periods (carnival, summer, biennale) to avoid missing trains and other problems of this kind during week working time.
The Venetian Line 2005
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They gat naething for crowdy, but runts boil'd to sowdie,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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The good Gaelic soldier will eat, sweetly, crowdy made in his brogue -- how much better off were we with the stout and well-fired oaten cakes that this Highland gentleman made on the flagstone in front of our cave-fire!
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The Figwort is named in Somersetshire "crowdy-kit"
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
knitandpurl commented on the word crowdy
porridge, gruel
July 31, 2007
fbharjo commented on the word crowdy
How gruelish!
June 11, 2011
poraski commented on the word crowdy
I use crowdy as a description of very friendly crowd, the one that you want to be a part of and its not overwhelming you. I always explain it to my EN speaking friends and some of the already adopted it into their vocab.
July 19, 2016