Crimp vs. Primp

Crimpadjective

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

Crimpadjective

(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Crimpnoun

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

Crimpnoun

The natural curliness of wool fibres.

Crimpnoun

Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

Crimpnoun

(obsolete) A card game.

Crimpnoun

An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

Crimpnoun

One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.

Crimpnoun

(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Crimpverb

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

Crimpverb

(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

Crimpverb

To pinch and hold; to seize.

Crimpverb

To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.

Crimpverb

(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

Crimpverb

To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.

Crimpverb

To pinch and hold; to seize.

Crimpverb

to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.

Crimpverb

To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.

Crimpverb

In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.

Crimpadjective

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

Crimpadjective

Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Crimpnoun

A coal broker.

Crimpnoun

One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

Crimpnoun

A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Crimpnoun

Hair which has been crimped; - usually in pl.

Crimpnoun

A game at cards.

Crimpnoun

an angular or rounded shape made by folding;

Crimpnoun

someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers

Crimpnoun

a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled

Crimpverb

make ridges into by pinching together

Crimpverb

curl tightly;

Primpverb

(intransitive) To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.

Primpverb

(transitive) To dress in an affected manner.

Primpverb

To be formal or affected in dress or manners; - often with up.

Primpverb

dress or groom with elaborate care;