cruddle

English

Alternative forms

crudle

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌdəl

Verb

cruddle (third-person singular simple present cruddles, present participle cruddling, simple past and past participle cruddled)

1. (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

• “cruddle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• crudled, cuddler, curdled