Crisp Krɪsp Pleasantly Dry Adjective Bre Bake Pastry

• bake until the pastry is golden and crisp.
• a crisp apple/lettuce
• a crisp new $5 bill
• a crisp white shirt

crisp

1. pleasantly hard and dry
• Bake until the pastry is golden and crisp.
2. firm and fresh
• a crisp apple/lettuce
3. fresh and clean; new and slightly stiff without any folds in it
• a crisp new $5 bill
• a crisp white shirt
4. pleasantly dry and cold
• a crisp winter morning
• The air was crisp and clear and the sky was blue.
5. firm or dry and making a pleasant noise when crushed
• deep, crisp snow
6. pleasantly clear and sharp
• The recording sounds very crisp, considering its age.
7. quick and confident in a way that suggests that the person is busy or is not being friendly
• See related entries: Confident
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/confident/crisp_1
• Her answer was crisp, and she gave no details.

Extra Examples

• The air was crisp and fresh.
• The sheets looked clean and crisp.
• When fried, the bacon rind becomes crisp and brown.
• It was a crisp winter morning.
• She stepped out into the crisp night air.

Word Origin

• Old English (referring to hair in the sense ‘curly’): from Latin crispus ‘curled’. Other senses may result from symbolic interpretation of the sound of the word.