creasy

From crease +‎ -y.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹiːsi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹisi/

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:

     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, page 41:

     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, pages 66–67:

     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 May 8, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing”, in The Guardian:

     [...] 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.

2. (mainly Southern US) Denoting any of several related species of edible, commonly wild, greens, especially upland cress or winter cress.
   • 1984 March 1, Fran Marengo et al., “Creasy Greens: Try Growing And Cooking This Edible Wild Plant”, in Mother Earth News:

     Creasy greens are amazingly versatile when it comes to brightening up winter fare. You can try them in any recipe that calls for watercress or cooked spinach.

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