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adj (English)
1. Senses relating to curliness.Examples: "crisp hair"; "A certeyn lightning on his headtop gliſtered harmeleſſe. / His criſp locks frizeling, his temples prettelye ſtroaking."; "Bulls are more Criſpe vpon the Fore-head than Covves; […]"dated
2. Senses relating to curliness.Examples: "[T]hree times did they drinke / Vpon agreement of ſvvift Seuerns floud, / VVho then affrighted vvith their bloudie lookes, / Ran fearefully among the trembling reedes, / And hid his criſpe-head in the hollovv banke, / Bloud-ſtained vvith theſe valiant combatants, […]"; "You Nimphs cald Nayades of yͤ vvindring brooks, / VVith your ſedg'd crovvnes, and euer-harmleſſe lookes, / Leaue your criſpe channels, and on this greene-Lane / Anſvvere your ſummons, Iuno do's command."; "The elder ladies' wrinkles curled much crisper / As they beheld; […]"archaicobsolete
3. Senses relating to curliness.Examples: "Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays."Synonyms: crispatearchaic
4. Senses relating to curliness.Examples: "One whyle hée at my necke dooth ſnatch / Another whyle my cléere criſp legges be ſtriueth for too catch, / Or trippes at mée: and euerywhere the vauntage he dooth watch."; "Common Mother [Nature] […] vvhoſe ſelfeſame Mettle […] Engenders the blacke Toad, and Adder blevv, / The gilded Nevvt, and eyeleſſe venom'd VVorme, / VVith all th'abhorred Births belovv Criſpe Heauen, / VVhereon Hyperions quickning fire doth ſhine: […]"; "[…] Fryer, you muſt leave / Your neat criſpe Clarret, and fall to your Syder / Avvhile; […]"obsolete
5. Senses relating to brittleness.Examples: "And this piece of laurel is from Vaucluse! […] What an exquisite dry old, vital, young-looking, everlasting twig it is! It has been plucked nine months, and looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years."; "A crisp fresh odour of starch wafted from the cardboard-stiff jacket which covered a well-built, Sunday athlete's frame."figuratively
6. Senses relating to brittleness.Examples: "An expert, given a certain query, will often come up with a crisp answer: “yes” or “no”."; "A very estimable young person, Miss Sturch […] such a well-regulated mind, and such a crisp touch on the piano; […]"; "I hoped, of course, that he would make it crisp and remove himself at an early date, for when the moment came for the balloon to go up I didn't want to be hampered by an audience. When you're pushing someone into a lake, nothing embarrasses you more than having the front seats filled up with goggling spectators."Antonyms: flabbyfiguratively
noun (English)
1. Senses relating to something brittle.Examples: "Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them."; "I was buying some crisps and pop when there was a noisy clatter on the bare floorboards and something hit my right heel. It was a white cue ball."; "Turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet"Synonyms: chip, potato chipIrelandUKin-plural
2. Senses relating to something brittle.Examples: "kale crisps prawn crisp"; "When she’s not writing, Katie spends her time with her husband and two kids, and their dogs: Wotsit, the King Charles spaniel, and Skips, the three-legged rescue dog. (And yes, they are both named after crisps!)"Synonyms: chip, potato chipIrelandUKbroadlyin-plural
3. Senses relating to something brittle.Synonyms: crunch#English: dessertCanadaUS
4. Senses relating to something brittle.datedslang
5. Senses relating to something brittle.Examples: "He bears my name—Glendinning. I will disown it; were it like this dress, I would tear my name off from me, and burn it till it shriveled to a crisp!"; "And, oh, to think she should meet such a death at last!—a sitting over the red-hot stove at three o'clock in the morning and went to sleep and fell on it and was actually roasted! Not just frizzled up a bit, but literally roasted to a crisp!"alsofiguratively
6. Senses relating to something brittle.Examples: "Alon[zo]. Anon they’l cut off ſlivers from us, as they did from the vvhole Ox, in St. James’s Fair. / Gonz[alo]. Oh, ’tis intollerable: methinks I hear a great ſhe Devil, call for [a] Groats vvorth of the Criſpe of my Countenance.—They are all for Griſtle."dialectal
verb (English)
1. Senses relating to brittleness.Examples: "to crisp bacon by frying it"; "c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifry, Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p. 6, […] put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls."; "Eliza was fretful at his absences, and brought him his dinner crisped and dried from its long heating in the oven."Synonyms: crispentransitive
2. Senses relating to brittleness.Examples: "It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,"; "[…] Monte Pellegrino, a huge, inordinate mass of pinkish rock, hardly crisped with the faintest vegetation, looming up to heaven from the sea."; "The leaves of the chestnut were crisped with gold."datedfigurativelytransitive
3. Senses relating to brittleness.Examples: "to put celery into ice water to crisp"; "[…] the air chilled at sunset, the ground crisped, and ere dusk, a hoar frost was insidiously stealing over growing grass and unfolding bud."; "The dew is dried that drenched our hide / Or washed about our way; / And where we drank, the puddled bank / Is crisping into clay."Synonyms: crispenintransitive
4. Senses relating to brittleness.Examples: "[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round."; "[…] the wheels [of the carriage] made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway."; "1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39, […] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,"Synonyms: crackle, creak, crunch, rustledatedintransitive
5. (dated) Senses relating to curliness.Examples: "[…] those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,"; "1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5, […] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:"; "1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p. 44, The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes Adornes his crisped Tresses:"datedtransitive
6. (dated) Senses relating to curliness.Examples: "[…] the crisped Brooks, / Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold"; "1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, London: John Murray, stanza 53, p. 29, I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;"; "[…] when the breeze crisps the pool, you may see the image of the breakers, and a likeness of the foam."datedfigurativelytransitive
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