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Yes. The word crisp is a Scrabble US word. The word crisp is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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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,

You can make 23 words from crisp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of crisp

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Definitions and meaning of crisp

crisp

Etymology

From Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crêpe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹɪsp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪsp

Adjective

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

  1. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
  2. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
  3. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
  4. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
  5. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
  6. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
  7. (of wine) Having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
  8. Lively; sparking; effervescing.
  9. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
  10. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
  11. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
  12. (of fabric) Starched and pressed (ironed).

Derived terms

  • crispen
  • crisply
  • crispness
  • crispy
  • uncrisp

Related terms

  • crispate
  • crispated
  • crispation

Translations

Noun

crisp (plural crisps)

  1. (British) A very thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack.
  2. (British, by extension, colloquial) A crunchy, savoury snack food made from potato starch, cornmeal or other starchy cereal grain, packaged and eaten similarly to the above.
  3. A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping
    Synonyms: crumble, crunch
  4. (British, food) Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.

Synonyms

  • (thin slice of fried potato, Australia, Canada, US): chip, potato chip

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make crisp.
    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. (intransitive) To become crisp.
    Synonym: crispen
  3. (transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).
    • 1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5,[6]
      […] 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,[7]
      The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes
      Adornes his crisped Tresses:
  4. (intransitive, dated) To become curled.
  5. (transitive, dated) To cause to undulate irregularly (of water); to cause to ripple.
    • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, London: John Murray, stanza 53, p. 29,[10]
      I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
      Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
  6. (intransitive, dated) To undulate or ripple.
    • 1630, Henry Hawkins (translator), Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome, Saint-Omer: The English College Press, “The Epitaphe of S. Paula,” p. 96,[11]
      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,[12]
      To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
      And tender curving lines of creamy spray:
  7. (transitive, dated) To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).
  8. (intransitive, dated) To become contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
  9. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To interweave (of the branches of trees).
  10. (intransitive, dated) To make a sharp or harsh sound.
    Synonyms: creak, crunch, crackle, rustle
    • 1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39,[23]
      […] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,
  11. (transitive, dated) To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something).
    Synonym: tinge

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • “crisp”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “crisp”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →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.

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