[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

earthy \earth"y\, a.
   1. consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike;
      as, earthy matter.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

            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. 
      1913 webster

            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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[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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: coarse, crude, 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: sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth
        approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" syn: down-to-earth
     also: earthiest, earthier
see also:
coarse crude gross vulgar down-to-earth earthiest 
earthier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

114 moby thesaurus words for "earthy":
   adamic, adamite, adamitic, circean, philistine, abandoned, adobe,
   animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic,
   bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute,
   brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, coarse, crass,
   crude, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite,
   fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled,
   hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent,
   lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material,
   materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy,
   mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical,
   positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded,
   pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic,
   reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific,
   scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded,
   soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish,
   tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic,
   uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unrefined, unromantic,
   unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldly

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