different between creasy vs creamy

English

Etymology

From crease +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?i?si/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?isi/

Adjective

creasy (comparative creasier, superlative creasiest)

1. Full of creases.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 26,^[1]

     Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial;

   • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, Etc., London: Moxon, p. 41,^[2]

     And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,

     [...] and from her lifted hand

     Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring

     To tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,

     Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d:

   • 1891, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, “The Twelfth Guest” in A New England Nun and Other Stories, New York: Harper, pp. 66-67,^[3]

     He searched there a day and half a night, pulling all the soiled, creasy old papers out of the drawers and pigeon-holes before he would answer his wife's inquiries as to what he had lost.

   • 2011, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing,” The Guardian, 8 May, 2011,^[4]

     [...] the store has created an ­exclusive fabric that looks like 100% linen but has (invisible) polyester in it. It’s ­washable, less creasy and easier to iron.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cayers, Searcy, carsey, crayes, scarey, scraye

English

Etymology

cream +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?i?mi/
• Rhymes: -i?mi

Adjective

creamy (comparative creamier, superlative creamiest)

1. Containing cream.

   creamy milk

2. Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream.

   creamy chocolate

3. Of any liquid, having the thick texture of cream.

   a creamy lotion

4. Having the colour of cream.
   • 2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson (?ISBN)

     The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...

Translations

Noun

creamy (plural creamies)

1. A horse with a cream-coloured coat.