creasy
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See also: Creasy
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːsi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹisi/
Adjective[edit]
creasy (comparative creasier, superlative creasiest)
- Full of creases.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss[1], Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 26:
- Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial;
- 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, Etc.[2], London: Moxon, page 41:
- And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,
[...] and from her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring
To tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,
Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d:
- 1891, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, “The Twelfth Guest”, in A New England Nun and Other Stories[3], New York: Harper, pages 66–67:
- He searched there a day and half a night, pulling all the soiled, creasy old papers out of the drawers and pigeon-holes before he would answer his wife's inquiries as to what he had lost.
- 2011 May 8, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing”, in The Guardian:
- [...] the store has created an exclusive fabric that looks like 100% linen but has (invisible) polyester in it. It’s washable, less creasy and easier to iron.
- (mainly Southern US) Denoting any of several related species of edible, commonly wild, greens, especially upland cress or winter cress.
- 1984 March 1, Fran Marengo et al., “Creasy Greens: Try Growing And Cooking This Edible Wild Plant”, in Mother Earth News:
- Creasy greens are amazingly versatile when it comes to brightening up winter fare. You can try them in any recipe that calls for watercress or cooked spinach.
Translations[edit]
Full of creases