soapcurd

English

Etymology

soap +‎ curd

Noun

soapcurd (countable and uncountable, plural soapcurds)

1. A gelatinous mass formed by soap mixed with water.
   • 1955, Cornelia A. Tyler, Soft Water in Modern Use, page 6:

     Hardness is ordinarily related to the soapcurd forming action of water.

   • 1967, John Desmond Peter, Take Hands at Winter, page 4:

     Gilpin picked a sludge of toilet tissue and soapcurds out of the plughole.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 98:

     They carried their dishes to a galvanized tub full of water and soapcurd and they carried the lamp to their bunks at the farther end of the bunkhouse and unrolled the ticks down over the rusty springs and spread their blankets and undressed .and blew out the lamp.

Anagrams

• pardusco