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Crepey vs Crepy - What's the difference?

crepey | crepy |

Crepy is a alternative form of crepey.



As adjectives the difference between crepey and crepy

is that crepey is saggy and crinkly, like crepe paper while crêpy is resembling or similar to crêpe.

crepey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of skin) Saggy and crinkly, like crepe paper.
  • * 2003 , Janet Simms, A practical guide to beauty therapy
    • Mix a little moisturiser with foundation under the eyes and over the neck if the skin is crepey : this will thin out the foundation a little...
  • * 2004 , Joseph A Mauriello, Techniques in Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery
    • The patient had a crepey appearance of skin prior to blepharoplasty.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=Henry Alford, title=Books on Broadway, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=My fat cells went condo and my skin is all crepey . }}

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    crepy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * , crepy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling or similar to .
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 477:
  • *:My shirt was too bug and its collar sat loosely around my crêpey neck.
  • *2007 , (Diana Athill), ‘Somewhere Towards the End’, Granta 98, p. 18:
  • *:women who had always worn a lot of make-up tended to continue to do so, blind to the unfortunate effect it could have on an elastic and crepy skin.

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