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crispy

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkɹɪs.pi//

Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.

    These biscuits are very crispy.

    Baked rolls should be crispy.

    […]on his Head a long and criſpy hair,[…]

  2. 2

    slangDenoting something is impressive or desirable; cool, awesome; fresh.

Etymology

From Middle English crispy (“crisped, curly”), equivalent to crisp + -y.

noun

  1. 1

    informalThe well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat.

Forms

plural
crispies
comparative
crispier
superlative
crispiest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).