Meaning of Crisp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Senses relating to something brittle.
   Ireland, UK, in-plural
2. In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
   Ireland, UK, in-plural
3. A surname.
4. Sometimes with a descriptive word: a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.
   Ireland, UK, broadly, in-plural
5. A place in the United States:
6. An unincorporated community in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
7. A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
   Canada, US
8. An unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, named after Charles F. Crisp.
9. A banknote; also, a number of banknotes collectively.
   dated, slang
10. An unincorporated community in Pleasants County, West Virginia, possibly a ghost town now.
11. Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.
    also, figuratively
12. The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
    dialectal
13. Senses relating to something curled.
    obsolete
14. A curly lock of hair, especially one which is tightly curled.
    obsolete
15. A delicate fabric, possibly resembling crepe, especially used by women for veils or other head coverings in the past; also, a head covering made of this fabric.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them.”

“I was buying some crisps and pop when there was a noisy clatter on the bare floorboards and something hit my right heel. It was a white cue ball.”

“Turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet”

“As I sit in front of the TV angrily eating crisps, it comes to me. I will challenge her to a race.”

“kale crisps    prawn crisp”

“When she’s not writing, Katie spends her time with her husband and two kids, and their dogs: Wotsit, the King Charles spaniel, and Skips, the three-legged rescue dog. (And yes, they are both named after crisps!)”

“He bears my name—Glendinning. I will disown it; were it like this dress, I would tear my name off from me, and burn it till it shriveled to a crisp!”

“And, oh, to think she should meet such a death at last!—a sitting over the red-hot stove at three o'clock in the morning and went to sleep and fell on it and was actually roasted! Not just frizzled up a bit, but literally roasted to a crisp!”

“Alon[zo]. Anon they’l cut off ſlivers from us, as they did from the vvhole Ox, in St. James’s Fair. / Gonz[alo]. Oh, ’tis intollerable: methinks I hear a great ſhe Devil, call for [a] Groats vvorth of the Criſpe of my Countenance.—They are all for Griſtle.”

“They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]”

“Vpon her head a ſiluer criſp ſhe pind, / Looſe vvauing on her ſhoulders vvith the vvind.”

“[T]he nevv deuiſed names of Stuffes and Colours, Crispe, Tamet, Pluſh, Tabine, Caffa, […]”

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