noun
Origin: 15th-c. form, by metathesis < ME crud, orig., any coagulated substance < IE base *greut-, to press, coagulate > crowd
transitive verb, intransitive verb
See curd in American Heritage Dictionary 4
curd
nounOrigin: Middle English, variant of crud; probably akin to crowden, to press; see crowd 1.
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