Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The production of a succession of slight sharp snapping noises.
- n. The crisp bits that remain after rendering fat from meat or frying or roasting the skin, especially of a pig or a goose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The making or emitting of small, abrupt, frequently repeated cracks or reports.
- n. The browned skin of roast pig.
- n. plural In the United States, the crisp residue of hogs' fat after the lard has been tried out.
- n. In Great Britain, a kind of cake used for dogs' food, made from the refuse of tallow-melting.
- n. Three stripes of velvet worn on the sleeve by members of St. John's College, Cambridge, England.
Wiktionary
- n. cookery Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens.
- n. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
- v. present participle of crackle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
- n. The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.
- n. Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sharp sound of snapping noises
- n. the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered
Etymologies
- Sense 2, Dutch krakeling, from obsolete Dutch kraeckelingh, from Middle Dutch krākelinc, from krāken, to crack; see cracknel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was a magnificent display of the phenomenon, and I feel certain that my attention was first attracted to it by the crackling sound which appeared to accompany the motion of the pale flames as they streamed across the sky; indeed, _crackling_, is not the word that properly describes the sound I heard, which was precisely that made by the _flickering_ of blazing fire; and as I have often since read and heard discussions upon the question whether the motion of the aurora is or is not accompanied by an audible sound, I can only say that on this occasion it was the sound that first induced me to observe the sheets of white light that were leaping up the sky.”
“CRISP PORK BELLY, SWEET PEACH SALSA Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential.”
“In my brief testing on one phone call, the recipient reported degradation in calling quality -- "crackling" -- after the bars receded to none.”
“(pork crackling -- and a Spanish word), making every bite a delectable combination of mildly fishy prawn and savory pork flavors, the crunch of the chicharron contrasting nicely with the slippery noodles.”
“The sounds were described as crackling, and seemed to depend on movements of the arch of the palate.”
“Boatman never knows what's coming next, even as he checks dispatch calls crackling over his radio - a necessary distraction.”
“And in the Dante Valentine books there was a whole lot of "crackling" of blood and magic going on as well.”
“Each bear-related portion of the book is full of zest and life and a kind of crackling energy.”
“Once any kind of crackling or cracks appear in any piece, forget it for food use -- I'd worry more about amoebas hiding in the lingering damp spaces than I would about lead.”
“And Brown, having magically delivered himself not only intact but, if anything, enlarged out of what appeared at first to be a capsizing with Proposition Thirteen, seems more and more a figure moving in a kind of crackling St. Elmo's shimmer of portent.”
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