creasy

See also: Creasy

English

Etymology

crease + -y

Adjective

creasy (comparative creasier, superlative creasiest)

  1. Full of creases.
    • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 3, Chapter 3,
      Mrs. Glegg had on [] garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial []
    • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, Etc., London: Moxon, p. 41,
      And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,
      [] and from her lifted hand
      Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring
      To tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,
      Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d:
    • 1891, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, “The Twelfth Guest” in A New England Nun and Other Stories, New York: Harper, pp. 66-67,
      He searched there a day and half a night, pulling all the soiled, creasy old papers out of the drawers and pigeon-holes before he would answer his wife's inquiries as to what he had lost.
    • 2011, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing,” The Guardian, 8 May, 2011,
      [] the store has created an ­exclusive fabric that looks like 100% linen but has (invisible) polyester in it. It’s ­washable, less creasy and easier to iron.

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