crowdy

American  

[kroo-dee, kroh-, krood-ee] / ˈkru di, ˈkroʊ-, ˈkrʊd i /

Or crowdie

noun

Scot. and North England.

• crowdies
  plural

1. a dish of meal, especially oatmeal and water, or sometimes milk, stirred together; gruel; brose; porridge.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• crowdies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of crowdy

First recorded in 1490–1500; of obscure origin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

crowdy crowdies

Why, there is country left, it is true, for such as have money, and ar' not particular in the choice," returned the emigrant; "but to my taste, it is getting crowdy.

From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper

They had besides apple-tarts, apple mose, apple slump, mess apple-pies, buttered apple-pies, apple crowdy and puff apple-pies—all differing.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

There's aye a glum look where there's cauld crowdy.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

Come dance a jig To my Granny's pig, With a raudy, rowdy, dowdy; Come dance a jig To my Granny's pig, And pussy-cat shall crowdy.

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various

A jeering appellation for a north country seaman, particularly a collier; Jock being a common name, and crowdy the chief food, of the lower order of the people in Northumberland.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

O mickle yeuks the keckle doup,  An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae the crowdies loup  O'er jouk an' hallan, braw an' baith.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton