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   Crisp

   /krisp/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (of a substance) firm, dry, and brittle, especially in a way considered pleasing or attractive: "crisp bacon"
   • ▪ (of a fruit or vegetable) firm, indicating freshness: "crisp lettuce"
   • ▪ (of the weather) cool, fresh, and invigorating: "a crisp autumn day"
   • ▪ (of paper or cloth) smoothly and attractively stiff and uncreased: "a crisp $5 bill"
   • ▪ (of hair) having tight curls, giving an impression of rigidity.
   • 2. (of a way of speaking or writing) briskly decisive and matter-of-fact, without hesitation or unnecessary detail: "they were cut off with a crisp “Thank you.”"

   noun

   • 1. a dessert of fruit baked with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour: "rhubarb crisp"
   • 2. a wafer-thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack; a potato chip. British

   verb

   • 1. give (something, especially food) a crisp surface by placing it in an oven or grill: "crisp the pita rounds in the oven"
   • ▪ (of food) acquire a crisp surface by being placed in an oven or grill: "open the foil so that the bread browns and crisps"
   • ▪ curl into short, stiff, wavy folds or crinkles.

   Word Origin Old English (referring to hair in the sense ‘curly’): from Latin crispus ‘curled’. Other senses may result from symbolic interpretation of the sound of the word.

   Derivatives

   • 1. crispness noun

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