Earthy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Earthy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Earthy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earthy adj conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" Synonym(s): crude, earthy, gross, vulgar not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass" hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life" of or consisting of or resembling earth; "it had an earthy smell"; "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean" sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" Synonym(s): down-to-earth, earthy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Earthy \Earth"y\, a. 1. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! --Shak. All over earthy, like a piece of earth. --Tennyson. 2. Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] [bd]Their earthy charge.[b8] --Milton. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. --1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. ) Earthy spirits black and envious are. --Dryden. 3. Gross; low; unrefined. [bd]Her earthy and abhorred commands.[b8] --Shak. 4. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.