crisp

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Veggies are always crisp-cooked just right and th baked potato rivals Houston's -- crisp, well-cooked skin (which I love!) and nice, not mealy, interior.

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  1. adjective Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.
  2. adjective Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.
  3. adjective Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.
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  1. Middle English, curly, from Old English, from Latin crispus; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English crisp, crips, kyrsp, from Anglo-Saxon crisp, *cirps, cyrps = Old French crespe, French crépe (later English crape, q. v.) = Spanish Portuguese Italian crespo, from Latin crispus, curled, crimped, wavy, uneven, tremulous.
  2. from Middle English crispen, crespen (partly after Old French), from Anglo-Saxon *crispian, *cirpsian, cyrpsian; cf. Old French cresper, modern F. créper, also crisper = Spanish crespar = Portuguese en-crespar = Italian crespare, from Latin crispare, curl, from crispus, curled: see crisp, adjective
 

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