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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Winter'll come on up that way and make the sleepin' crimpy.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
Molly was six years old; a plump, roly-poly little girl with long, crimpy golden hair and great blue eyes.
From Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.
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
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
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
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