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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crispy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crispy fresh lettuce
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A faithful clientele returns for the lavish portions, the crispy tempura and the freshest sushi.
▪ Cook under a hot grill until brown and crispy.
▪ His playing was so beautifully put, with his famous runs, crispy, all the same size of a pearl.
▪ I can't explain how they do it, but these french fries seem to be twice as crispy as most.
▪ Pour the sauce over the leeks, sprinkle with fresh breadcrumbs and grill until crispy on top.
▪ Savoy Crunch peanuts are coated in a crispy shell in smoked bacon or sweet and sour flavours.
▪ Soon the trees will bear apples whose crispy, white flesh will not turn brown even hours after being cut open.
▪ You may indeed have to overcome a bias against fish served in a form other than crispy sticks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crispy

Crispy \Crisp"y\ (-?), a.

  1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

  2. Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crispy

late 14c., "curly," from crisp (adj.) + -y (2). Meaning "brittle" is recorded from 1610s.

Wiktionary
crispy

a. having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender. n. (context informal English) The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat.

WordNet
crispy
  1. adj. tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips" [syn: crisp]

  2. [also: crispiest, crispier]

Usage examples of "crispy".

Sam was still asleep, God was in his heaven and with old Rice Crispies on the bench I could find nothing particularly wrong with the world.

Rice Crispies, doing his job in a very decent fashion, was decidedly interested in the point of agent provocateur.

I rewarded that upright fellow Rice Crispies with a low bow and sat down in a mood of quiet self-congratulation.

Everything was going extremely well when Rice Crispies adjourned for lunch.

Beside him, the sun-browned fronds of a banana tree were feathering in the wind, making a crispy sound whenever a gust blew them back into the wall.

Squeezed into dinner jackets, with celluloid cunts in tow: crispy, crunchy, cute.

With Jonesy's help, the talented Mr Gray had discovered something he liked more than crispy bacon, even more than bingeing on Jonesy's well of rage.

It's that crispy, nutty taste that gets me—and breadcrumbs never seem so fatty.

He even showed them that adding a little olive oil to the dough made a crispier crust.

The chicken proved juicier, the mayonnaise creamier, the pickles more tart, and the chips crispier than any she had eaten before.

And there we were, sitting in Bertorelli’s—such a perfect venue for a romantic dinner tête-à-tête—and he’d ordered champagne and we were sharing some foie gras, followed by brain-friendly steak and the crispiest French fries.

Restored by a couple of sessions in the tank to heal his bums, Ford crunched another of the crispy fries.

Adam's bacon strip was a little crispy, and my scrambled eggs had too much salt, but I knew that I'd get better with practice.

He brought with him from England a few small packages of Crispy Wheaties, a breakfast cereal that his organisation were marketing in a big way, and he brought some samples of an older product, Mornmeal, which was full of vitamins and roughage.

He favored her with an engaging smile and ran his finger over the crispy chicken skin, licking the fat that dribbled down.