A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat.

synonyms: chip, potato chip, Saratoga chip.

Dutch: fiche, frietje, patatje

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic.

synonyms: crease, crinkle, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle.

Roget 256: be rough etc. adj.; go against the grain.    render-rough etc. adj.; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.    ... show more

Roget 248: be convoluted etc. adj.; wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate^†; entwine, intwine^†; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop^†, scallop, wring, intort^†; contort; wreathe etc. (cross) 219.    ... show more

Dutch: fronsen, kreukelen, kreuken, plooien, rimpelen, verkreukelen, verkreuken

Make brown and crisp by heating:
— Crisp potatoes.

synonyms: crispen, toast.

Dutch: roosteren

of something seen or heard Clearly defined:
— The crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot.

synonym: sharp.

Roget 328: brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack^†, shivery, fissile; splitting etc. v.; lacerable^†, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.    ... show more

Roget 256: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose^†, rugous^†; knurly^†; asperous^†, crisp, salebrous^†, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth^†, roughhewn^†; craggy, cragged; crankling^†, scraggy; prickly etc. (sharp) 253; arborescent etc. 242^†; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous^†; laciniate^†, laciniform^†, laciniose^†; pappose^†; pileous^†, pilose^†; trichogenous^†, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^†, crinite^†; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^†, bearded, pilous^†, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^†; setous^†, setose^†, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.    downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate^†, lanated^†; lanuginous^†, lanuginose^†; tomentose^†; fluffy.    ... show more

Tender and brittle:
— Crisp potato chips.

synonym: crispy.

Pleasantly cold and invigorating:
— Crisp clear nights and frosty mornings.

synonyms: frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy.

Pleasingly firm and fresh.

of hair In small tight curls.

synonyms: frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy.

Polish: kędzierzawy

Brief and to the point; effectively cut short:
— A crisp retort.

synonyms: curt, laconic, terse.

Roget 572: concise, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious etc. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.    ... show more

Polish: niedługi, krótki