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Definition: Crispin |
CrispinNoun1. Patron saint of shoemakers; he and his brother were martyred for trying to spread Christianity (3rd century). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Crispin" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "curly-headed". |
Date "Crispin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Crispin A shoemaker. St. Crispin was a shoemaker, and was therefore chosen for the patron saint of the craft. It is said that two brothers, Crispin and Crispian, born in Rome, went to Soissons, in France (A.D. 303), to propagate the Christian religion, and maintained themselves wholly by making and mending shoes. Probably the tale is fabulous, for crepis is Greek for a shoe, Latin crepid-a, and St. Crepis or Crepid became Crepin and Crespin. St. Crispin's Day. October 25th, the day of the battle of Agincourt. Shakespeare makes Crispin Crispian one person, and not two brothers. Hence Henry V. says to his soldiers - "And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by ... But we in it shall be remembered." Shakespeare: Henry V., iv. 3. St. Crispin's holiday. Every Monday, with those who begin the working week on Tuesday; a no-work day with shoemakers. (See Crispin.) St. Crispin's lance. A shoemaker's awl. In French, "Lance de St. Crépin." Crispin is the patron saint of shoemakers. The French argot for a leather purse is une crépine. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CRISPIN. A shoemaker: from a romance, wherein a prince of that name is said to have exercised the art and mystery of a shoemaker, thence called the gentle craft: or rather from the saints Crispinus and Crispianus, who according to the legend, were brethre. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CrispinSynonyms: Saint Crispin (n), St Crispin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; Crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crispin |
| English words defined with "Crispin": sidereal day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Crispin": GENTLE CRAFT ♦ Knights of St. Crispin ♦ Shoemakers, Symbols of Saints. (references) |
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Screenplays | And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) Then call we this the field of Agincourt, fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Tesorito de Crispin (1990) | |
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Human Rights | Congo | It also was reported during the year that the Government released several persons in late 2000 who were arrested in 2000. In late 2000, Crispin Ipondo Banda, who was arrested in January 2000, was released. (references) |
Guatemala | They named Rudy Pozuelos, Andres Villagran Alfaro, Francisco Escobar Blas, Dario Morales Garcia, Carlos Rene Alvarado, Luis Alberto Lima Oliva, Julio Melendez Crispin, Edgar Carrillo Grajeda, Erick Urizar Barillas, Hugo Najera Ruiz, Santos Hernandez Perez, Erick Medrano Garcia, and Misael Chinchilla Monzon. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crispin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.53% of the time. "Crispin" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.53% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.47% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Crispin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crispin | Last name | 1,000 | 14,363 |
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| "Crispin" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "curly-headed". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Crispin." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Crispian | Male | English | Crispin |
| Crispin | Male | English | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Crispin": Saint Crispin ♦ St Crispin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crispus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Crispin": crispiness, crispinesses, crisping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Crispin" (pronounced 'Cris"pin'): Breastpin, Clothespin, Coppin, hairpin, Limpin, linchpin, Mainpin, Pippin, Pushpin, Rufiopin, sculpin, Skulpin, Turpin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ricins. | |
-2 letters: crisp, pirns, ricin, scrip. | |
-3 letters: cris, iris, nips, nisi, pics, pins, pirn, rins, rips, snip, spic, spin. | |
-4 letters: cis, ins, nip, pic, pin, pis, psi, rin, rip, sic, sin, sip, sir, sri. | |
-5 letters: in, is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: crisping. | |
+2 letters: cyprinids, piercings, pinpricks, precisian, precising, precision, prickings, scrimping, scripting. | |
+3 letters: ascription, comprising, conspiring, crispening, crispiness, incorpsing, isentropic, mispricing, nitpickers, patricians, pernicious, picnickers, practising, precisians, precisions, preslicing, princeship, principals, principles, recipients, resplicing. | |
+4 letters: anisotropic, ascriptions, coscripting, description, discipliner, fingerpicks, imprecision, inscription, inscriptive, ionospheric, percipients, picrotoxins, precipitins, predictions, prescinding, prescribing, prickliness, princeliest, princelings, princeships, proficients, proscribing, provincials, pruriencies, rifampicins, sphincteric, stringpiece, voiceprints. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 69 73 70 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. .. ... .--. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r i s p i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0069 0073 0070 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37847585827580 |
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