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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

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

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

For eyebrows he had two little patches of reddish stubble; for moustache, what looked like a bit of discoloured tow, and scraps of similar material hanging beneath his creasy chin represented a beard.

From New Grub Street by George Gissing

His thin, creasy Inverness cape was thrown back, displaying evening dress.

From The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

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

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