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5-letter words (3 found)

CRIPS,CRISP,SCRIP,

4-letter words (7 found)

CRIP,CRIS,PICS,PIRS,RIPS,RISP,SPIC,

3-letter words (10 found)

CIS,PIC,PIR,PIS,PSI,RIP,SIC,SIP,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (3 found)

IS,PI,SI,

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Definitions and meaning of crisp

crisp

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kɹɪsp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪsp

Etymology 1

The adjective is derived partly from the following:

  • Sense 1: Middle English crisp (“curly; having curly hair or wool; of fabric: crinkly, wrinkled; of water: rippled”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“of hair: crimped, curly”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kris-, from *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”).
  • Sense 2: from the above, and probably also onomatopoeic, representing a crinkling or crunching sound.

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.

The noun is derived partly from the following:

  • Middle English crisp (“light, crinkled fabric; kind of pastry; crinkliness or roughness of skin”), from crisp (adjective) (see above).
  • 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.
    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.
    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.
    2. (figurative)
      1. Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
      2. Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
        Antonym: flabby
      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.
      6. Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
      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
Related terms
  • crispate
  • crispated
  • crispation
Translations

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.
    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.
    7. (obsolete except UK, dialectal) The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
  2. (obsolete) Senses relating to something curled.
    1. A curly lock of hair, especially one which is tightly curled.
    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
  • burn to a crisp
  • cheese crisp
  • crisplike
  • prawn crisp
Translations

Etymology 2

Partly from the following:

  • Sense 1: crisp (adjective; see etymology 1).
  • Sense 2: Late Middle English crispen (“to curl; of hair: to be curly”), from Old English cirpsian (“to curl, crisp”), from Latin crīspō (“to crimp; to curl”), from crispus (“of hair: crimped, curly”, adjective) (see etymology 1) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).

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
      • 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.
    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
    4. (intransitive, dated) To make a sharp crackling or crunching sound.
      Synonyms: crackle, creak, crunch, rustle
      • 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,
  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.
      • 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:
    2. (transitive, figurative)
      1. To cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.
        • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, London: John Murray, stanza 53, p. 29,[15]
          I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
          Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
      2. To twist or wrinkle (a body part).
    3. (transitive, UK, dialectal) To fold (newly woven cloth).
    4. (intransitive) To become curled into tight, stiff folds or waves.
    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:
      2. Of a body part: to become twisted or wrinkled.
Derived terms
Translations

References

Further reading

  • “crisp”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crisp”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Crips, crips, scrip

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • cripce, crips, crispe, crysp, cryspe, kyrspe

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

Related terms

  • crispen

Descendants

  • English: crisp

References

  • “crisp, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

crisp (plural crispes)

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

Descendants

  • English: crisp

References

  • “crisp, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin crispus (“curly”).

Adjective

crisp

  1. (of hair) curly

Descendants

  • Middle English: crisp, cripce, crips, crispe, crysp, cryspe, kyrspe
    • English: crisp

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “crisp”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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