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say it: UR-thee
earthy is an adjective meaning "conspicuously and tastelessly indecent". It is pronounced /ˈɝθi/ — UR-thee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
not far removed from or suggestive of nature
“the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow”
“earthy smells of new-mown grass”
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”
sensible and practical
“has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem”
“her earthy common sense”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for earthy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.