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Word entry · 6 letters

earthy

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"Coarse"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɜː.θi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aehrtyStarts with EEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Word origin

From Middle English erthy, equivalent to earth + -y. Compare German erdig (“earthy”), Swedish jordig (“earthy”).

Used in a sentence

  • The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
  • She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
  • Meekly thou didſt reſign this earthy load / Of Death, call'd Life;

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