单词 | curdle |
释义 | curdlen.1 The act or product of curdling. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > curds curd1378 slipc1425 wrench-milk1510 well curds1538 float-wheyc1550 ricoct1582 curdlea1591 bonny clabber1605 fleeting1611 clabber1634 yearned milk?1635 trouts1683 sweet-cheese1688 earning1744 slip curd1784 the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > state of being coagulated > coagulation runninga1398 congealmentc1400 quailing1440 coagulationc1477 congelation1547 clodding1552 curdlea1591 clottering1611 concretion1617 clotter1658 concoagulationa1691 congealing1739 thrombosis1857 coagulating1872 clotting1880 a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1593) 988 There is a kind of downe or curdle upon Wisedom like the traine of Gentle women, which is more then needes, which wee call the crotchets of the braine. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mattes, curds, or curdles. 1694 R. Blome tr. A. Le Grand Entire Body Philos. ix. x. 222 The Milk thus corrupted being suck'd in by the Infant, degenerates in his Stomach into a vitious curdle of Cheese grievously distasteful to the Childs weak Stomach. 1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. viii. 268 The bare molten rock shows in places..curdled like the cooling fire-stream it once was, and often these strands or curdles are twisted regularly like a rope. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise iv. 65 What disgusting stuff cauliflower could be—a curdle of cabbage! 2015 A. Brennan Love Me to Death (new ed.) xx. 201 A curdle of fear twisted in her stomach as she realized someone had used her account. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). curdlen.2 English regional (now rare). 1. A ripple or eddy in water. Cf. curl n. 2. Chiefly midlands. ΚΠ 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 30 Tracing the..winding fountains to their infant bed, With many a flag and rushy bunch bespread; Marking each curdle boil and boil away. 1835 J. Clare Rural Muse 153 The little brook sings loud among the pebbles, So very loud, that water-flowers, which lie Where many a silver curdle boils and dribbles, Dance too with joy as it goes singing by. 1877 Nature 22 Mar. 450/1 [He] finds a difficulty in accepting Maury's belief that the currents cut one another in ‘curdles’ in the equatorial calms. 2. A curl of hair, a ringlet. Cf. curl n. 1. south-western. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > curl > [noun] feak1548 lovelock1592 crisple1594 curl1604 cockle1608 crisp1638 ringlet1645 cockera1653 heartbreaker1654 moustache1662 confidenta1685 cruchea1685 passagerea1685 favourite1690 wimpler1724 cannon1774 whisker1786 favori1801 curlet1803 tendril1814 sausage curl1828 spit-curl1831 crimp1855 curdle1860 number sices1861 whiskerette1880 1860 G. P. R. Pulman Song of Solomon iv. 1 In yer curdles be culvers' aies. 1894 W. Raymond Young Sam & Sabina i. 7 You should zee her a-Zunday wi' her head in curdles! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). curdlev.α. 1500s (1900s Scottish) cruddel, 1500s–1800s crudle (in later use English regional (north midlands) and Scottish), 1500s– cruddle (in later use English regional (northern and north midlands), Scottish, and Irish English), 1600s crudel, 1700s cruttle (in a representation of Irish English speech), 1800s cruddly (English regional (Cornwall)). β. 1500s– curdle, 1600s curdel, 1600s curdell. 1. a. transitive to curdle the blood: †to cause blood to thicken or clot (obsolete); (figurative) to afflict a person with strong negative emotion, esp. fear or dread; to terrify. Cf. blood-curdler n., blood-curdling adj. at blood n. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)] gastOE eisieOE fearc1000 scarec1175 fray14.. doubtc1315 fright1423 flightc1571 to curdle the blood1579 effray1588 hare1656 pavefy1656 frighten1666 sob1671 haze1677 funk1789 gliff1823 frecken1847 to scare a person silly1942 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. f. 4 Comes the breme winter..Drerily shooting his stormy darte, Which cruddles the blood, and pricks the harte. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. D2v O how impatience cramps my cracked veins, And cruddles thicke my blood, with boiling rage! 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια ii. vii. 73 Bloude is curdled by a moderate heate (for a burning heate would consume it, and a weake heat would not concoct it). 1675 R. Gower tr. F. de Le Boë New Idea Pract. Physic xxxiv. 313 When..Vapors, or Wind raisd by them, or Poison..either too much loosen or dissolve, or too much coagulate, or curdle the Blood. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. i. i. 3 An holy horror curdled all my blood. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xxi. 358 Some awful and ghostly presence, which had power to curdle my blood into ice, and cramp my sinews into impotence. 1920 Daily Mail 28 Dec. 3/5 They feel the real thing in grim humour that can curdle the blood of even elder brothers. 2018 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 June 16 The Coalition is busy trying to curdle voters' blood with the horror of Labor's tax policies. b. intransitive. Of blood: to thicken or clot. Chiefly in figurative descriptions of strongly negative emotions, esp. fear, terror, or dread, in which the emotion is thought of as chilling and congealing the blood. ΚΠ 1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times v. xxxiv. 492/1 Death ensueth thereby, because the blood of a Bull doth curdle, coagulate, and waxe hard [Fr. se caille, & endurcit] immediatly. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King i. sig. A3v See how thy bloud cruddles at this. 1702 R. Eliot Anat. Ess. ii. 147 The Blood cruddles and stagnats in the Ventricles or Vessels adjoining. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 514 The blood thrills and curdles at the thought Of such a gulf as he designed his grave. 1842 R. H. Barham Bloudie Jacke in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 170 It makes the blood curdle with fear. 1952 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 25 Nov. 8/1 Those statistics certainly don't make our blood curdle or send cold shivers down our spine. 1976 Jrnl. Gen. Management Summer 72/2 A blockage occurs when the artery is sufficiently diseased to cause the blood to curdle and clot. 2018 Evening Standard (Nexis) 1 June Taylor's accounts of his struggles make your blood curdle. 2. transitive. To form (milk) into curd; to cause (a sauce, custard, etc.) to separate so as to form soft lumps surrounded by liquid. Also more generally: to turn (any liquid) into a soft solid substance like curd; to coagulate, clot, congeal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [verb (transitive)] > curdle curd?1440 turn1548 curdle1585 shill1691 whig1835 the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > coagulate thickc1000 runlOE quaila1398 congealc1400 curd?a1425 thickenc1425 coagulec1550 clumper1562 curdle1585 clutter1601 quarl1607 coagulate1611 posseta1616 sam1615 concrete1635 earn1670 clotter1700 cotter1781 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. Table sig. Z3v Milke crudled. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. vii. 166 It will cruddle milke as wel as rennet. 1666 J. Beale Let. 6 Feb. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 65 The motion of the hand in the same gentle circular manner, as the Dayry mayde stirreth the milke, to curdle it for cheese. 1774 S. MacIver Cookery & Pastry iii. 47 Be sure never to let any thing come a-boil that eggs are in, else it will curdle the sauce. 1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 305 A very hard water, curdling soap, and possessing a large portion of selenite and earthy carbonats. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 6 Sap that curdles milk and makes ricotta. 1987 New Scientist 26 Feb. 68/1 Bacteria feed on the latex and curdle it, just as they do milk. 3. a. intransitive. Of milk or cream: to become or form curd; (of a sauce, custard, etc.) to separate so as to form soft lumps surrounded by liquid. Also more generally of other liquids: to coagulate, to congeal.Curdling of foods containing milk or eggs is caused by the clumping of suspended protein molecules to form solids. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [verb (intransitive)] > curdle or become curdled runeOE loppera1300 curda1398 to run togethera1398 quaila1425 trout1483 lop1570 turn1577 quar1578 curdle1586 caille1601 to set together1608 set1736 whig1756 shill1876 clabber1880 the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > coagulate runeOE curda1382 congealc1400 clotterc1405 clodder1499 cludder1540 yearna1568 quar1578 curdle1586 clot1591 coagulate1600 clod1639 concoagulate1666 earn1670 set1736 keech1863 1586 T. Newton tr. Olde Mans Dietarie sig. C4v Newe milke warme from the vdder, may be giuen them [sc. Old men] by it selfe,..foreseene, that a litle Sugar or Salt, or pure Honny be put vnto it & so stirred together, for feare least it congeale and curdle in their Stomackes. 1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 142 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) How this Primordial Water..should ever coagulate or cruddle into that consistency. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 55 The milk of the goat is..not so apt to curdle upon the stomach as that of the cow. 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 90 Mint prevented milk from curdling. 1908 Evening Record (Traverse City, Mich.) 25 Jan. 4/2 If boiled dressings or sauces curdle after adding vinegar, continue boiling them, and stir rapidly until they are smooth. 2000 S. Garfield Mauve 164 One..advance towards synthetic plastic was made when a cat knocked over some formaldehyde into her saucer of milk at the Bavarian laboratory of Adolf Spitteler. This made it curdle into a hard substance resembling celluloid. 2014 Good Housek. Apr. 202/2 It will need to boil, but won't curdle as the cornflour stabilises the yolks. b. intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To form like curd or curds, to congeal, thicken. Also: (of a positive faculty, emotion, etc.) to become sour or spoilt. ΚΠ 1753 T. Hamilton Misc. Wks. in Verse & Prose I. 70 The floods abated, and the earth now dry, The clouds seal'd up, and curdl'd in the sky. 1819 Ld. Byron Mazeppa xviii. 792 An icy sickness curdling o'er My heart. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 22 The adjacent atmosphere..curdled up into visible fog. 1926 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye 7 Mar. Defeated ambition curdles into a sourness and a bitterness which are hard to endure. 1990 London Theatre Rec. 10 252/1 We are told in excruciating detail how ecstatic love curdles into anger, despair, hate and finally indifference. 2018 New Statesman (Nexis) 4 July The infinite ways in which passion can curdle into misery. 4. a. transitive. To form (a solid substance or object) by curdling or coagulating. Also (in early use): to create (a mass or entity) by cohesion or coalescence of diffuse particles (now rare). Cf. curd v. 1a.In early use frequently with reference to the theory that the embryo is formed when semen coagulates menstrual blood, in a process comparable to the formation of curds in milk. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Job x. 10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke, and cruddled me like cheese? View more context for this quotation 1646 N. Lockyer Eng. faithfully watcht With 2 David was marred from the beginning, and made miserable as soon as crudled in the wombe, as soon as any matter was laid together for such a form. 1720 J. Dennis Invader of his Country v. i. 66 The Moon of Rome, chaste as the Isicle That's crudled by the Frost from purest Snow. ?1810 Ld. Thurlow tr. Frog-and-Mouse Fight 35 The Loaf Thrice-kneaded, in the neat round Basket kept, Escapes not Me,..Nor Cheese, fresh curdled from delicious Milk. 1977 Organic Gardening & Farming Apr. 103 Tofu is curdled from soy milk in much the same way that cheese is curdled from dairy milk. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 July d1 Prime Kobe beef, Manchego cheese curdled from the milk of Spanish sheep, handmade French chocolates from the Rhone Valley. b. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To condense or distil; to spoil, sour, or tarnish (something). ΚΠ 1816 Ld. Byron Dream i A thought, A slumbering thought..curdles a long life into one hour. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 203 So beauty curdles envy's look on thee. 1932 T. S. Moore Poems III. 9 Some evil in unharvested love must lurk, That as a drop of stale turns fresh milk sour, Curdles youth. 2018 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 July (Late Final ed.) c9 A long-ago loss has slowly curdled her humanity. 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