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Definition of Crowdy
1. n. A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
Definition of Crowdy
1. Noun. (Scotland) A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water. ¹
2. Adjective. (nonstandard) crowded ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crowdy
1. porridge [n -DIES] - See also: porridge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowdy
Literary usage of Crowdy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend (1889)
"The crowdy, as a Northumberland dish, is made by filling a basin with oatmeal,
... Singular virtues have always been connected with taking crowdy. ..."
2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"'he notice of motion was intitled also in the matter of Lawrence, crowdy, and
Bowlby, ... It appeared that the firm of Lawrence, crowdy, and Bowlby were the ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"The country folks, themselves advance, With crowdy-muttons out of France ; And
Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance, And all the town be merry. ..."
4. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Quasi-contracts by William Albert Keener (1888)
"crowdy. [CHAP. IL the money due thereunder having been all paid, or that a receipt
be endorsed thereon, and the deeds left in your custody ; as I should ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
""James crowdy, Esq." *This letter Mr. James crowdy forwarded to the defendant,
inquiring what answer he should give to it; whereupon the ..."
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