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English
Etymology
From crimp + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
crimpy (comparative more crimpy, superlative most crimpy)
- Having a crimped appearance; frizzly.
1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts:Whenever the Bobbies heard my step on the long outside stair, every body electrified. Tongues drew in, ears squared, noses lifted. The peer from all the eyes under all the bangs of crimpy hair concentrated into one enormous “looking,” riveted upon the turning of the stair where I would first show.
2006, Deborah Eisenberg, “Some Other, Better Otto”, in Jeffrey Eugenides, editor, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, HarperCollins, published 2008, page 164:“I can't see if you do that,” Margaret said, disengaging the earpiece of her glasses and a clump of her red, crimpy hair from the baby's fist […] .
- the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep
- (climbing) Involving crimping
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