cressy
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See also: Cressy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cressy (comparative more cressy, superlative most cressy)
- Abounding in cresses.
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:
- Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.
- Resembling or characteristic of cress.
- 1942, Circular, number 633, page 25:
- a slightly cressy flavor