different between cressy vs creasy
cressy
English
Etymology
cress +? -y
Adjective
cressy (comparative more cressy, superlative most cressy)
- Abounding in cresses
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
Anagrams
- cysers
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creasy
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)
- 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.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 26,[1]
Translations
Anagrams
- Cayers, Searcy, carsey, crayes, scarey, scraye
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