crisp

See also: Crisp

English

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Pronunciation

An apple crisp (noun sense 1.1).
A bowl of potato crisps (noun sense 1.2), often called chips in North America and other places.

Etymology 1

The adjective is derived partly from the following:[1]

Doublet of crape and crepe.

Adjective sense 2.2.3 (“of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry”) is transferred from a description of frost or snow as “crisp”, that is, crunchy.[1]

The noun is derived partly from the following:

  • Middle English crisp (“light, crinkled fabric; kind of pastry; crinkliness or roughness of skin”),[4] from crisp (adjective) (see above).[5]
  • Modern English crisp (adjective) (“having a consistency which is hard yet brittle”).

Adjective

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

  2. Senses relating to curliness.
    1. (dated) Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete), of a person: having hair curled in this manner.
      crisp hair
      • 1582, Virgil, “The Second Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 56:
        A certeyn lightning on his headtop gliſtered harmeleſſe. / His criſp locks frizeling, his temples prettelye ſtroaking.
      • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiment Solitary, Touching the Differences of Liuing Creatures, Male & Female.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 852, page 226:
        Bulls are more Criſpe vpon the Fore-head than Covves; […]
      • 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXVI. A Walk; a Foreign Portrait; a Sail. And the End.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, page 479:
        "The Stranger" was a dark, comely, youthful man's head, portentously looking out of a dark, shaded ground, and ambiguously smiling. There was no discoverable drapery; the dark head, with its crisp, curly, jetty hair, seemed just disentangling itself from out of curtains and clouds.
      • 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “Zanzibar and the Mrima Explained”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration […], volume I, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 34:
        [T]he short, soft, and crisp hair resembles Astrachan wool, […]
    2. (archaic or obsolete) Of a body of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled.
    3. (botany, archaic) Synonym of crispate (“of a leaf: having curled, notched, or wavy edges”); crisped.
      • 1770, John Berkenhout, “Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. […] II. Musci, Mosses.”, in Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland. […], volume II (Comprehending the Vegetable Kingdom), London: […] P[eter] Elmsly (successor to Mr. [Paul] Vaillant) […], →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 293:
        Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays.
    4. (uncertain, obsolete) Clear; also, shining, or smooth.
  4. Senses relating to brittleness.
    1. Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
      The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
      • 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio cxcix, verso, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
        I Craſſhe [crush] as a thynge dothe that is cryſpe or britell bytwene ones tethe: le creſpe, prime cõiuga.
      • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching Melioration of Sounds.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 231, page 63:
        In Froſty vveather, Muſicke vvithin doores ſoundeth better. VVhich may be, by reaſon, not of the Diſpoſition of the Aire, but of the VVood or String of the Inſtrument, vvhich is made more Criſpe, and ſo more porous and hollovv: And vve ſee that Old Lutes ſound better than Nevv, for the ſame reaſon.
      • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “The Family Use Art, which is Opposed with Still Greater”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 158:
        [M]y vvife […] uſed every art to magnify the merit of her daughter. If the cakes at tea eat ſhort and criſp, they vvere made by Olivia: if the gooſeberry vvine vvas vvell knit, the gooſeberries vvere of her gathering: […]
      • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 283:
        There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling [of a suckling pig] […]
      • 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXII. The Flower-curtain Lifted from Before a Tropical Author; with Some Remarks on the Transcendental Flesh-brush Philosophy.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 414:
        Thanksgiving comes, with its glad thanks, and crisp turkeys;—but Pierre sits there in his room; […]
      • 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “Appendix I. Commerce, Imports and Exports.”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration […], volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 419:
        The dry snuff is made of leaf toasted till crisp and pounded between two stones, mixed with a little magádil or saltpetre, sometimes scented with the heart of the plaintain-tree and stored in the tumbakira or gourd-box.
      • 1877, William Black, “Friends and Neighbours”, in Green Pastures and Piccadilly. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 71:
        They drove along the crisp and crackling road. The hoar-frost on the hedges was beginning to melt; the sunlight had draped the bare twigs in a million of rainbow-jewels.
        Describing frost on the road.
      • 2011, Dan Lepard, “Doughnuts, Batters & Babas”, in David Whitehouse, editor, Short & Sweet: The Best of Home Baking, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 272:
        [F]rying in beef fat – known as dripping, suet or tallow – produces the crispest texture and richest flavour of all.
    2. (figurative)
      1. Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
        • 1820 July 12, Leigh Hunt, “On Receiving a Sprig of Laurel from Vaucluse”, in The Indicator, volume I, number XL, London: […] Joseph Appleyard, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 316:
          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.
        • 1968, Dorothy Uhnak, chapter 8, in The Bait, London: Mysterious Press in association with Arrow Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 101:
          A crisp fresh odour of starch wafted from the cardboard-stiff jacket which covered a well-built, Sunday athlete's frame.
      2. Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
        Antonym: flabby
        An expert, given a certain query, will often come up with a crisp answer: “yes” or “no”.
        • 1857, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Fifteen Years After”, in The Dead Secret. […], volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, book II, page 63:
          A very estimable young person, Miss Sturch […] such a well-regulated mind, and such a crisp touch on the piano; […]
        • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 15, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, page 132:
          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.
        • 1968, Dorothy Uhnak, chapter 3, in The Bait, London: Mysterious Press in association with Arrow Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 29:
          Transit Patrolman Alexander looked a little upset. He was seeing for the first time the translation of the crisp, cold official words of police procedure into reality and he was groping.
        • 1968, Dorothy Uhnak, chapter 18, in The Bait, London: Mysterious Press in association with Arrow Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 212:
          Murray's eyes remembered the woman: small and crisp and clean and taking the little boy by the hand, carefully fussing over him, smiling at him.
        • 1999, John [G.] Hampton, Lisa Emerson, B[ruce] R. MacKay, Writing Guidelines for Postgraduate Science Students, Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press, →ISBN, page 130:
          Another way of writing the last example is 'She brought along her favourite food which is chocolate cake' but this is less concise: colons can give your writing lean, crisp style.
        • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 – 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport‎[1], archived from the original on 3 February 2025:
          Stephen Ward's crisp finish from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake's pass 11 minutes into the second half proved enough to give Mick McCarthy's men a famous victory.
      4. Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a period of time: characterized by such weather.
      5. Of fabric, paper, etc.: clean and uncreased.
        • 1968, Dorothy Uhnak, chapter 5, in The Bait, London: Mysterious Press in association with Arrow Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 72:
          He sat in a small room with benches where Santino had placed him, handed him the crisp, freshly withdrawn fifty-dollar bills, while Santino set about getting a bail bondsman.
      6. Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
        This new television set has a very crisp image.
      7. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
      8. (oenology) Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
Derived terms
Translations
of a body of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled — see also rippled,‎ wrinkled

Noun

crisp (plural crisps)

  1. Senses relating to something brittle.
    2. (chiefly Canada, US) A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
      Synonym: crunch
    4. (Ireland, UK, chiefly in the plural) In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
      Synonyms: chip, potato chip (all Australia, Canada, US)
      1. (Ireland, UK, by extension) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a thin slice made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten as a snack like a potato crisp.
        kale crisps    prawn crisp
        • 2019, Katie Ginger, “About the Author”, in Snowflakes at Mistletoe Cottage, London: HQ, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN:
          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!)
          Wotsits are cheese-flavoured corn puffs, and Skips are prawn-flavoured crackers.
    5. (slang, dated) A banknote; also, a number of banknotes collectively.
    6. (originally US, also figurative) Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.
      • 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XII. Isabel, Mrs. Glendenning, the Portrait, and Lucy.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section II, pages 262–263:
        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!
      • 1872, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Riley—Newspaper Correspondent”, in Mark Twain’s Sketches. […], author’s edition, London: George Routledge & Sons, →OCLC, page 215:
        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!
    7. (obsolete except UK, dialectal) The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
      • 1674 November 29 (probable first performance; Gregorian calendar), T. Duffett [i.e., Thomas Duffet], The Mock-tempest: Or The Enchanted Castle. […], London: […] William Cademan […], published 1675, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 19:
        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.
  2. (obsolete) Senses relating to something curled.
    1. A curly lock of hair, especially one which is tightly curled.
      • 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, “Of Java Major”, in Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book III, page 325:
        They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]
    2. A delicate fabric, possibly resembling crepe, especially used by women for veils or other head coverings in the past; also, a head covering made of this fabric.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Partly from the following:

Verb

crisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)

  2. Senses relating to brittleness.
    1. (transitive) To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
      Synonym: crispen
      to crisp bacon by frying it
      • c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifry, Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p. 6,[2]
        […] put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls.
      • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 17, in Look Homeward, Angel‎[3], New York: Modern Library, page 230:
        Eliza was fretful at his absences, and brought him his dinner crisped and dried from its long heating in the oven.
    2. (transitive, figurative, dated) To add small amounts of colour to (something); to tinge, to tint.
    3. (intransitive) To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
      Synonym: crispen
      to put celery into ice water to crisp
      • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Briarmains”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 206:
        […] the air chilled at sunset, the ground crisped, and ere dusk, a hoar frost was insidiously stealing over growing grass and unfolding bud.
      • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle”, in The Second Jungle Book‎[5], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 79:
        The dew is dried that drenched our hide / Or washed about our way; / And where we drank, the puddled bank / Is crisping into clay.
      • 2007, Anne Enright, chapter 24, in The Gathering‎[6], New York: Black Cat, page 154:
        Her hair feels fake, like a wig, but I think it is just crisping up under the dye and Frizz-Ease.
      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, New York: HarperCollins, Part 4, Chapter 2:
        […] the flick of the wrist with which one rolls the half-set wafer on to the handle of a wooden spoon and then flips it on to the drying rack to crisp.
    4. (intransitive, dated) To make a sharp crackling or crunching sound.
      Synonyms: crackle, creak, crunch, rustle
      • 1860, Nikolai Gogol, “The Night of Christmas Eve: A Legend of Little Russia”, in George Tolstoy, transl., Cossack Tales‎[7], London: Blackwood, page 1:
        […] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.
      • 1904, Harry Leon Wilson, chapter 10, in The Seeker‎[8], New York: Doubleday, Page, page 239:
        […] 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,[9]
        […] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,
      • 1915, Elisha Kent Kane, chapter 16, in Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack‎[10], New York: Outing Publishing Company, published 1916, page 291:
        The same peculiar crisping or crackling sound […] was heard this morning in every direction […] the ‘noise accompanying the aurora,’
      • 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book‎[11], Open Road Media, published 2012, Book 2:
        […] the hot pavement by the playing field where the trees crisp together.
      • 1948 November, Max Brand, “Honor Bright”, in The Cosmopolitan:
        Jericho had placed in my hand a glass in which the bubbles broke with a crisping sound.
  4. (dated) Senses relating to curliness.
    1. (transitive) To curl (something, such as fabric) into tight, stiff folds or waves; to crimp, to crinkle; specifically, to form (hair) into tight curls or ringlets.
      • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
        […] those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
      • 1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5,[12]
        […] 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,[13]
        The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes
        Adornes his crisped Tresses:
      • 1800, Thomas Pennant, “China”, in The View of Hindoostan‎[14], volume 3, London: Henry Hughs, page 172:
        […] the well known rhubarb of our gardens, with roundish crisped leaves.
      • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 23, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 360:
        For a time I was made to forget that my skin was dark and my hair crisped.
      • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 7, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 176:
        The mere story of their adventures […] on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair.
    2. (transitive, figurative)
      1. To cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.
      2. To twist or wrinkle (a body part).
        • 1741, Alexander Pope, chapter 10, in Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus‎[16], Dublin: George Faulkner, page 82:
          […] he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible rictus of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:
        • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure‎[17], New York: Harper, published 1896, Part 4, Chapter 3, p. 266:
          Phillotson saw his wife turn and take the note, and the bend of her pretty head as she read it, her lips slightly crisped, to prevent undue expression under fire of so many young eyes.
        • 1914, Frank Norris, chapter 15, in Vandover and the Brute‎[18], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, pages 242–243:
          […] a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.
        • 1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 27, in The Freelands,‎[19], London: Heinemann, page 252:
          Ah, here was a fellow coming! And instinctively he crisped his hands that were buried in his pockets, and ran over to himself his opening words.
        • 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea‎[20], New York: Scribner:
          They [the shark’s teeth] were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws.
    3. (transitive, UK, dialectal) To fold (newly woven cloth).
    4. (intransitive) To become curled into tight, stiff folds or waves.
      • 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Lettuce”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 239:
        The Sauoie Lettuce hath very large leaues ſpread vpon the grounde, at the firſt comming vp broade, cut, or gaſht about the edges, criſping or curling lightly this or that way, not vnlike to the leaues of garden Endiue, […]
      • 1972, Richard Adams, chapter 50, in Watership Down‎[21], New York: Scribner, published 1996, page 417:
        […] a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal
    5. (intransitive, figurative)
      1. Of a body of water: to ripple, to undulate.
        • 1630, Henry Hawkins (translator), Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome, Saint-Omer: The English College Press, “The Epitaphe of S. Paula,” p. 96,[22]
          Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind, & our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease.
        • 1832, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters,” Choric Song, V., in Poems, London: Moxon, p. 114,[23]
          To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
          And tender curving lines of creamy spray:
        • 1908, Helen Keller, “The Seeing Hand”, in The World I Live In,‎[24], New York: The Century Co., page 11:
          […] the quick yielding of the waves that crisp and curl and ripple about my body.
      2. Of a body part: to become twisted or wrinkled.
        • 1935, Edgar Wallace, Robert G. Curtis, chapter 10, in The Man Who Changed His Name,‎[25], London: Hutchinson:
          […] she gave no sign of the wave of repugnance that swept over her except that her fingers suddenly crisped.
Derived terms
Translations
(transitive) to cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; (intransitive) of a body of water: to ripple, to undulate — see ripple,‎ undulate
(transitive) to twist or wrinkle (a body part); (intransitive) of a body part: to become twisted or wrinkled — see twist,‎ wrinkle

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “crisp, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2024; “crisp, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ “crisp, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ Joseph Bosworth (1882) “crisp, adj.”, in T[homas] Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 171, column 1.
  4. ^ “crisp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  5. ^ “crisp, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2025; “crisp, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  6. ^ “crisp, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2025; “crisp, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  7. ^ “crispen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  8. ^ Joseph Bosworth (1882) “cirpsian”, in T[homas] Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 156, column 1.

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Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English crisp, cirps and Old French cresp, crespe, from Latin crispus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krisp/, /krips/

Adjective

crisp (plural and weak singular crispe)

  1. curly, curled
  2. curly-haired
  3. crinkly or wavy

Descendants

  • English: crisp

References

Noun

crisp (plural crispes)

  1. A kind of curled pastry.
  2. A kind of crinkly fabric.

Descendants

References

Old English

Etymology

From Latin crispus (“curly”).

Adjective

crisp

  1. (of hair) curly

Descendants

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