Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Abounding in cresses.
Wiktionary
- adj. Abounding in cresses
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding in cresses.
Etymologies
- cress + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I just went into the garden and picked some chives and some sorrel and some fennel and some peppery cressy thing I have growing in with my lettuces and whizzed it all up with a spoonful of sour cream and a spoonful of mayonnaise and some buttermilk.”
“That part of the beach was long and flat, and excellent walking when the tide was down; a little cressy burn flowed over it in one place to the sea; and the sandhills ran along the head of it like the rampart of a town.”
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Norman Cressy: Electoral Votes Will Be The Only Ones That Count In The Fall
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cressy’.
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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