"crispy" meaning in English

See crispy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈkɹɪs.pi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crispy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: crispier [comparative], crispiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪspi Etymology: From Middle English crispy; equivalent to crisp + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|crispy}} Middle English crispy, {{suffix|en|crisp|y}} crisp + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} crispy (comparative crispier, superlative crispiest)
  1. Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender. Derived forms: crispily, crispiness, crispy critter, crispy seaweed, crispy water Translations (having a crisp texture): مُقَرْمَش (muqarmaš) [masculine] (Arabic), مُقَرْمَشَة (muqarmaša) [feminine] (Arabic), مقرمش (meʔármeš) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), مقرمشة f كريسبى (meʔarméša) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), maragsip (Bikol Central), хрупкав (hrupkav) (Bulgarian), cruixent [masculine] (Catalan), 脆的 (cuì de) (Chinese Mandarin), sprød (Danish), knasende (Danish), rapea (Finnish), rapsakka [colloquial] (Finnish), croustillant [masculine] (French), knusprig (German), פָּרִיךְ (parích) [masculine] (Hebrew), ropogós (Hungarian), croccante [masculine] (Italian), крцкаво (krckavo) (Macedonian), rangup (Malay), pakapaka (Maori), cruissent [masculine] (Occitan), crocante (Portuguese), crocant [masculine, neuter] (Romanian), crujiente (Spanish), krispig (Swedish), malutong (Tagalog), กรอบ (grɔ̀ɔp) (Thai), хрусткий (xrustkyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-crispy-en-adj-SJK8TOfU

Noun

IPA: /ˈkɹɪs.pi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crispy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: crispies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪspi Etymology: From Middle English crispy; equivalent to crisp + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|crispy}} Middle English crispy, {{suffix|en|crisp|y}} crisp + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} crispy (plural crispies)
  1. (informal) The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-crispy-en-noun-8137mNLr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 32 68

Inflected forms

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  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "crispy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English crispy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "crisp",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "crisp + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English crispy; equivalent to crisp + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crispies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crispy (plural crispies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fat",
          "fat"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "roasted",
          "roasted"
        ],
        [
          "meat",
          "meat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) The well-baked fat on the surface of a piece of roasted meat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹɪs.pi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪspi"
    },
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-crispy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-crispy.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crispy"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": kerésbi, kerézbi vs. meʔarméša",
  "path": [
    "crispy"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "crispy",
  "trace": ""
}

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