creasy

American  

[kree-see] / ˈkri si /

adjective

creasier, creasiest

1. full of creases.

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Etymology

Origin of creasy

First recorded in 1855–60; crease + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Treva Johnson, 78, grew up eating leather britches and creasy greens that she foraged with her grandmother.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2016

It's got awful creasy laying folded so long.

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Warner, Anne

For eyebrows he had two little patches of reddish stubble; for moustache, what looked like a bit of discoloured tow, and scraps of similar material hanging beneath his creasy chin represented a beard.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

She had crinkly white hair, and she always wore a string of gold beads around her creasy neck.

From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Perhaps she thought of Wilford, of whom she had been very fond, for she pushed her chair toward him and then held up her fat, creasy arms for him to take her.

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane