crimpy
Americanadjective
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having a crimped form or appearance.
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South Midland U.S. (of weather) cold and disagreeable.
Etymology
Origin of crimpy
Example Sentences
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She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots.
From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Little pie with crimpy crust, Set it in the sun; Sugar it with powdered dust, And bake it till it's done.
From Child Songs of Cheer by Antoinette Inglis
Anxiety showed itself nakedly in his yellow-brown eyes, and there were wrinkles in his low forehead just below the crimpy hair.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
For example, I cannot credit that the mettlesome poet, Byron, would have contentedly sat down with Bartleby to examine a law document of, say five hundred pages, closely written in a crimpy hand.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
Winter'll come on up that way and make the sleepin' crimpy.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
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