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crisper

adj
/ˈkɹɪspə/UK/ˈkɹɪspɚ/US

Etymology

From crisp + -er.

  1. inherited from crisp — “light, crinkled fabric; kind of pastry; crinkliness or roughness of skin”
  2. derived from *kris-✻
  3. derived from crispus — “of hair: crimped, curly”
  4. inherited from crisp — “curly”
  5. inherited from crisp — “curly, wavy”
  6. suffixed as crisper — “crisp + er”

Definitions

  1. comparative form of crisp

    comparative form of crisp: more crisp

  2. A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete…

    A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.

  3. The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher…

    The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.

    2. A device for crisping or curling the hair.

      • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crisper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA