Earthy: adj. (word coming from the Latin truculentus "fierce, cruel")
The adjective “truculent” has several meanings:
1. Aged sense: Who has or who wants to give himself a fierce, terrible appearance.
Quotation from the French writer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872): “Bully-looking fellows […] were pounding the tables with punches enough to kill oxen”.
2. Modern sense: Colorful, which surprises and delights with its excesses.
A earthy (picturesque) character.
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