crisp
• adjective 1 firm, dry, and brittle. 2 (of the weather) cool, fresh, and invigorating. 3 briskly decisive and matter-of-fact. • noun (also potato crisp) Brit. a wafer-thin slice of potato fried until crisp and eaten as a snack. • verb 1 give (food) a crisp surface by cooking in an oven or under a grill. 2 archaic curl into short, stiff, wavy folds or crinkles. — DERIVATIVES crisper noun crisply adverb crispness noun crispy adjective (crispier, crispiest). — ORIGIN Latin crispus ‘curled’.
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