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# earthy

«earthy» in Mova's school dictionary: **made of or tasting of soil, dirt or the ground** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (earthier, earthiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Earthy means made of or tasting of soil, dirt or the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/#m1)

2) Earthy also means plain, rough and close to nature, not fancy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, food or a place that tastes or smells of the soil, such as roots and barleycorns that taste of the ground

### examples

- The carrots had an earthy taste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/#x1)
- They dug a hole in the earthy bed of the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/#x2)
- The soup was thick and earthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/#x3)
- Her jokes were earthy but kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «earthy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earthy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.