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# crispy

«crispy» in Mova's school dictionary: **hard and dry on the outside, and breaks with a pleasant…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (crispy, crispier, crispiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Crispy food is hard and dry on the outside, and breaks with a pleasant crunch when you bite it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used about food in everyday life, cooking lessons and menus: crispy bacon, crispy chips, crispy duck, crispy batter. In science of cooking, food goes crispy when water is driven out by heat. Leaves can also be called crispy in autumn.

### examples

- I like my toast nice and crispy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#x1)
- The chips were golden and crispy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#x2)
- Fry the bacon until it is crispy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#x3)
- The autumn leaves were crispy under our feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#x4)
- The roast potatoes had crispy edges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#x5)
- Keep the biscuits in a tin so they stay crispy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/#x6)

### note

Comparative crispier, superlative crispiest. Similar: crisp (more often used for fresh apples, lettuce, cold air or paper: a crisp apple). In the UK «crisps» are thin potato slices in packets (US: chips).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crispy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crispy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.