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Crowdy

Crowdy \Crow"dy\ (krou"d[y^]), n. A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]

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crowdy

a. (context nonstandard English) crowded n. (context Scotland English) A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water.

Usage examples of "crowdy".

An underlying drumming rhythm like that woken from the skin of a crowdy crawn‌—the Cornish equivalent of a bodhran.

He could hear harping in it and fiddle, the hollow drumbeat of a crowdy crawn and a breathy flute.

Felix didn’t play on stage yet‌—except for adding a bit of rhythm on the crowdy crawn towards the end of an evening.

Interviewed by this reporter, Coroner Crowdy stated that Clausen’s death might have been suicide but that the position of the wound made this unlikely.

And on the third morning after the reading of the will Squire Crowdy, of Creamclotted Hall, altogether got over his grief, and said that it was all right.

The Base did have a few things that most towns didn't have-a double row of electric fences all the way around it to keep out the crowdy hammock city beyond the trees, and three different little houses called checkpoints that all the cars coming in had to drive past-but that didn't seem like enough to make it a Base instead of just a normal place to live.