crisper
/ˈkɹɪspə/US/ˈkɹɪspɚ/
crisper is the comparative form of crisp.
Noun
crisper (plural crispers)
- A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
- The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.
- An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.
- A device for crisping or curling the hair.
- Now she had washed her hair and set it with those tin crispers to which her brother-in-law had objected, and rolled the ends on metal curlers.1944, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 61, page 51
Meaning of crisp
Adjective
crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)
- Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete), of a person: having hair curled in this manner.
- crisp hair
- Of a body of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled.
- [T]hree times did they drinke / Vpon agreement of ſvvift Seuerns floud, / VVho then affrighted vvith their bloudie lookes, / Ran fearefully among the trembling reedes, / And hid his criſpe-head in the hollovv banke, / Bloud-ſtained vvith theſe valiant combatants, […]c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]...
- Synonym of crispate (“of a leaf: having curled, notched, or wavy edges”); crisped.
- Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays.1770, John Berkenhout, “Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. […] II. Musci, Mosses.”, in Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland. […], volume II (Comprehending the Vegetable Kingdom)...
- Synonyms:
- crispate
- Clear; also, shining, or smooth.
- One whyle hée at my necke dooth ſnatch / Another whyle my cléere criſp legges be ſtriueth for too catch, / Or trippes at mée: and euerywhere the vauntage he dooth watch.1567, Ovid, “The Ninth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 111, recto
- Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
- The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
- Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
- And this piece of laurel is from Vaucluse! […] What an exquisite dry old, vital, young-looking, everlasting twig it is! It has been plucked nine months, and looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years.1820 July 12, Leigh Hunt, “On Receiving a Sprig of Laurel from Vaucluse”, in The Indicator, volume I, number XL, London: […] Joseph Appleyard, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 316
Forms of crisper
| plural | crispers |
|---|
Origin of crisper
From crisp + -er.
Questions about crisper
- What does crisper mean?
- Crisper means a cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
- What is crisper the comparative form of?
- Crisper is the comparative form of crisp.
- What part of speech is crisper?
- Crisper is a noun.
- How do you pronounce crisper?
- Crisper is pronounced /ˈkɹɪspə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of crisper?
- The plural of crisper is crispers.
Words near crisper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crisper (page history and authors); crisp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crisper.wav.
Cite this entry: “crisper.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crisper. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.