curdle v.
1. (US Und.) of a scheme or plan, to go wrong, to misfire.
Big Con 217: When he is broke or when the fix ‘curdles’. [Ibid.] 245: The fix ‘soured’ [...] and the government indicted all the ropers. | ||
Firing Offense 206: ‘[T]he Kotekna VCR deal that got soured up in Washington’. |
2. (US) to irritate, to cause annoyance.
Life 27 Jan. 78: ‘It curdles me’ = I loathe it [W&F]. | ||
‘Whitman College Sl.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 155/1: that curdles me. ‘That annoys me very much.’. |