different between creasy vs crease

English

Etymology

From crease +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?i?si/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?isi/

Adjective

creasy (comparative creasier, superlative creasiest)

1. Full of creases.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 26,^[1]

     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., London: Moxon, p. 41,^[2]

     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, New York: Harper, pp. 66-67,^[3]

     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, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing,” The Guardian, 8 May, 2011,^[4]

     [...] 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cayers, Searcy, carsey, crayes, scarey, scraye

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Etymology 1

From earlier English creast, from Middle English crest (“ridge, crest”). More at crest.

Noun

crease (plural creases)

1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

   His pants had a nice sharp crease.

   His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.

2. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
3. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
4. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
5. (Jamaican, slang) A crack.
   • 2002, Mark Mylod, Ali G Indahouse, Naomi Campbell as herself:

     (To Ali G): My skin is so dry. So for being a bad boy, I want you to rub oil into me, paying special attention to my breasts and my batty crease.

Synonyms

• (handball: goal crease): zone

Translations

Verb

crease (third-person singular simple present creases, present participle creasing, simple past and past participle creased)

1. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
2. (intransitive) To undergo creasing; to form wrinkles.
3. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.

   The bullet just creased his shoulder.

Translations

See also

• Hockey rink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

crease (plural creases)

1. Archaic form of kris.

   • the cursed Malayan crease, and battle-clubs / From the isles of palm

   • 1960, Essex Institute Historical Collections (volume 96, page 128)

     While the crew and some of the natives were taking in the pepper, Samuel Page Pierson noticed that some of the other Malays aboard ship were receiving their creases from the natives in the boat.

Verb

crease (third-person singular simple present creases, present participle creasing, simple past and past participle creased)

1. Archaic form of kris.
   • 1960, Essex Institute Historical Collections (volume 96, page 128)

     Then a Malay creased Richard Hunt, who escaped for a moment up the ropes.

Anagrams

• Ceaser, Sarcee, recase, searce

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kre?ase]

Verb

crease

1. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of crea

Spanish

Verb

crease

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.

   Synonym: creara

2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.