cressy

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English

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Etymology

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From cress +‎ -y.

Adjective

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cressy (comparative more cressy, superlative most cressy)

  1. 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.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of cress.
    • 1942, Circular, number 633, page 25:
      a slightly cressy flavor

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