earthy
    adj 1: 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" [syn: crude, earthy, gross,
           vulgar]
    2: not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy
       taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of
       new-mown grass"
    3: hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life"
    4: 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"
    5: sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth
       approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" [syn:
       down-to-earth, earthy]

Earthy \Earth"y\, a.
   1. Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike;
      as, earthy matter.
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            How pale she looks,
            And of an earthy cold!                --Shak.
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            All over earthy, like a piece of earth. --Tennyson.
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   2. Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly;
      terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." --Milton.
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            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. )
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            Earthy spirits black and envious are. --Dryden.
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   3. Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands."
      --Shak.
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   4. (Min.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch;
      as, an earthy fracture.
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