uncrisped

English

Verb

uncrisped

  1. simple past tense and past participle of uncrisp

Adjective

uncrisped (comparative more uncrisped, superlative most uncrisped)

  1. Not crisped.
    • 1628, William Prynne, The Unloveliness of Love-Lockes, London, p. 54,
      [God] hath designed such naturall, and vnadorned, or vncrisped Haire vnto vs as is most comely, proper, and behoofull for vs:
    • 1843, Ezekiel Bacon, Recollections of Fifty Years Since, Utica, NY: R.W. Roberts, p. 19,
      plain unfrizzled and uncrisped locks
    • 1901, Frances Harper, “Moses” in Idylls of the Bible, Philadelphia, p. 23,
      And yet the bush, with leaves uncrisped, uncurled,
      Was just as green and fresh as if the breath
      Of early spring were kissing every leaf.
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