crisper

From crisp +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪspə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪspɚ/

crisper

1. comparative form of crisp: more crisp

crisper (plural crispers)

1. A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
2. The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.
3. An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.
4. (archaic) A device for crisping or curling the hair.
   • 1944, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 61, page 51:

     Now she had washed her hair and set it with those tin crispers to which her brother-in-law had objected, and rolled the ends on metal curlers.

• pricers

Borrowed from Latin crispāre. Cf. crêper, which may be an inherited doublet.

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crisper

1. (of a muscle) to tense, to tense up

• “crisper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

crīsper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of crīspō