a. [f. CRACKLE + -Y: cf. crack-y.] Prone to crackle; crisp and brittle.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Paint., 78. The true Venetian crackly substance of water-colour with the rich and transparent glazings of oil.
1880. Baring-Gould, Mehalah, x. (1884), 144. I’m crisp and crackly like seaweed in an East wind when I am in female society.
