🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

cuajada

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kwaˈxaða

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Curd/kɜːrd/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La cuajada es un postre tradicional muy popular."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A soft, white substance formed when milk coagulates, used as the basis for cheese.

    "Fresh curd can be eaten on its own or mixed with fruits and spices."
As verb
  1. 1

    To form curds or cause milk to coagulate and separate into solids and liquid whey.

    "Adding lemon juice to warm milk will cause it to curd quickly."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'curde', 'crudde', likely of Celtic origin or related to the verb 'crudded' (meaning to coagulate). Historically, it has referred to the thickened dairy substance formed when milk coagulates, a fundamental food item across European and South Asian culinary traditions.

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