cressy

comparative more cressy · superlative most cressy

1. Abounding in cresses.

   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.

   1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down

2. Resembling or characteristic of cress.

   a slightly cressy flavor

   1942, Circular, number 633, page 25

1. Synonym of Crecy (Crecy-en-Ponthieu, Crecy Forest, Crecy Campaign, Battle of Crecy)

   Synonyms: Crecy

2. Former name of Cressey: a census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States.
3. A surname from Anglo-Norman.
4. A town in Northern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
5. A locality in the Shire of Colac Otway and the Shire of Corangamite, south western Victoria, Australia