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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Her black crimpy hair seemed to rise up, while her eyes got suddenly a repulsive power, as though they said: "Away from her, what have you to do with her?"
From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
A crimpy night followed, but an early patrol in the morning found the cattle snug in the dry, rank grasses which grew in the first bottoms of the creek.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams
It pleased him almost to childishness to find how easily he could listen and even talk to the oiled and crimpy little barber, and to the pretty, consumptive-looking, print-dressed baker's wife.
From The Return by Walter De la Mare
Then I met little Kit Seymour, a girl from the south, who had reddish hair, all crimpy, and spoke soft, soft English as if she were breathing what she said at you.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Well, he was tall and very straight, and had small ears and—er—a fairish mustache that was brushed up a little away from his lips, and—and cat's eyes, and—brown, crimpy hair, getting a little gray."
From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn
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