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“earthy”
earthly, earthy
earthly (URTH lee) (adjective)
Suggestive of belonging to the world; ordinary, practical: Issac could think of no earthly reason to say no to the request for ice cream on a hot day.
earthy (UR thee) (adjective)
1. Practical and straightforward; open and direct: People were impressed by the speaker's earthy realism.
2. Plain and simple in style: This restaurant tends to serve food that is made with basic and natural earthy ingredients.
3. Not polite; somewhat rude or crude: Charley's humor tends to be earthy and impolite.
2. Plain and simple in style: This restaurant tends to serve food that is made with basic and natural earthy ingredients.
3. Not polite; somewhat rude or crude: Charley's humor tends to be earthy and impolite.
Haley and Art went to the new restaurant which served earthy, organic foods, because neither of us could think of any earthly reason to go to a high-priced restaurant.
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(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, cadmia, earthy or earth; metal)
(a form of word humor when people fiddle with words and laugh at the resultant loony tunes: Considered by some to be the lowest form of humus, earthy wit that we all dig and often respond to with groans and moans)
(a form of word humor when people fiddle with words and laugh at the resultant loony tunes; considered by some to be the lowest form of humus, earthy wit, that we all dig and often respond to with groans and moans)