Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; crisp.
- adj. Having small curls, waves, or ripples.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Curled; formed into curls or little waves.
- Brittle; crisp.
Wiktionary
- adj. having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.
- n. informal The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tender and brittle
Etymologies
- crisp + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And yes, the male, though curled up now, had probably been a six-footer in life, according to the arson investigator, who ought to have known, having seen quite a few of what he referred to as the crispy critters.”
“Just a note, battered foods are never quite the same reheated, but the best method I've found to keep them crispy is to reheat them on a rack in a moderate oven, no hotter than 350 F.”
“Really nice seasoning and caramelization on the roasted vegetables on a thin crispy crust.”
“Soft, slightly chewy, crispy from the rice krispies and sweet.”
“The slice itself was a decent size and the crust was thin and pleasantly crispy from the reheating.”
“The oblong thin crispy crust is topped with Parmesan, mozzarella, (perhaps another cheese?) red onions, basil and wild mushrooms and had fragrance that was truly mouth-watering.”
“That thin crispy shell on the outside and nothing but a cavern of hot air inside.”
“The outside was coated in crispy coconut, the inside a flaky peanut butter.”
“These dosas are thick and so need to be cooked on both the sides unlike the thin crispy ones.”
“It is that thin crispy coal-oven-flavored crust, with tasty cheese and toppings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crispy’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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NihonGoose's Words
colander, doily, nacre, mandible, carapace, glutinous, penumbral, skein, mollify, colloquial, sanguine, chagrin and 118 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Time to be cute.
paddle, tickle, giggle, hiccup, buttercup, cookie, sock, chew, roly-poly, cartwheel, butterfly, bee and 23 more...
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Words I Hate
cunt, kinky, panties, molasses, listless, lithe, ooze, orange, orb, cuspid, crispy, cough and 3 more...
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round 1
no rhyme or reason this time around
touché, douché, phrenology, crispy, eye candy, pyre, graffiti, faith, kundalini, orgasm, soul, prowess, convulsion of bliss
Tweets
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reesetee :-) Sep 8, 2009
bilby
I'm the Dragon of Grindly Grun,
I breathe fire as hot as the sun.
When a knight comes to fight
I just toast him on sight,
Like a hot crispy cinnamon bun.
- Shel Silverstein, 'The Dragon of Grindly Grun'. Sep 7, 2009