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English
Etymology
From crease + -y.
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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: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, page 41: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, pages 66–67: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 May 8, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing”, in The Guardian:[...] 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.
- (mainly Southern US) Denoting any of several related species of edible, commonly wild, greens, especially upland cress or winter cress.
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