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n. a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

v. make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"

wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up

v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"

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crisp

adj. pleasingly firm and fresh; "crisp lettuce"

crispy

adj. tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips"

curt, laconic, terse

adj. brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy

adj. (of hair) in small tight curls

brown

v. fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"

grill

v. examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology"

warm

v. make warm or warmer; "The blanket will warm you"

cook

v. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle

v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"

brisk

adj. very active; "doing a brisk business"

invigorating

adj. imparting strength and vitality; "the invigorating mountain air"

novel, refreshing

adj. pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

taciturn

adj. habitually reserved and uncommunicative

point-blank

adj. close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank range"; "a point-blank shot"

unceremonious

adj. without due formalities; "unceremonious dismissal from office"

brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)

adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

hasty

adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

aloof, distant, upstage

adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

quiet

adj. of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.

gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed

adj. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"

caller

adj. fresh; "caller fish"

fresh-cut

adj. cut recently; "fresh-cut flowers"

good, undecomposed, unspoiled, unspoilt

adj. not left to spoil; "the meat is still good"

hot

adj. newly made; "a hot scent"

new-made

adj. newly made; "the aroma of new-made bread"

strong, warm

adj. freshly made or left; "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm"

chewable, cuttable

adj. easy to cut or chew

short, crumbly

adj. tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"

flaky, flakey

adj. made of or easily forming flakes

tenderized, tenderised

adj. made tender as by marinating or pounding; "tenderized meat"

aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic

adj. terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

compendious, compact, succinct, summary

adj. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

cryptic

adj. having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"

elliptic, elliptical

adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor

sententious

adj. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes

telegraphic

adj. having the style of a telegram with many short words left out; "telegraphic economy of words"; "the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"

curled, curling

adj. of hair having curls

permed

adj. styled with permanent waves

ringleted

adj. (of hair) shaped into ringlets

wavy

adj. (of hair) having waves; "she had long wavy hair"

press

v. exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"

limp, wilted

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy

adj. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding

adj. of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

straight

adj. (of hair) having no waves or curls; "her naturally straight hair hung long and silky"

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