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creasy

American  
[kree-see] / ˈkri si /

adjective

creasier, creasiest
  1. full of creases.


Etymology

Origin of creasy

First recorded in 1855–60; crease + -y 1


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Treva Johnson, 78, grew up eating leather britches and creasy greens that she foraged with her grandmother.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2016

Clothes gets wet, and clothes dries on us, same as un did on the sheep afore us; else they gets stiff and creasy.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Perhaps she thought of Wilford, of whom she had been very fond, for she pushed her chair toward him and then held up her fat, creasy arms for him to take her.

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Mary Jane Holmes

The baby made a little nestling motion, and its creasy eyelids dropped.

From The Yates Pride, a romance by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

It's got awful creasy laying folded so long.

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner

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