creasy

crease +‎ -y

creasy (comparative creasier, superlative creasiest)

1. Full of creases.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 3, Chapter 3,

     Mrs. Glegg had on […] 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,

     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,

     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,

     […] 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.

• Cayers, Searcy, carsey, crayes, scarey