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crayon

[ krey-on, -uhn ]

noun

  1. a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring.
  2. a drawing in crayons.


verb (used with object)

  1. to draw or color with a crayon or crayons.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a drawing with crayons.

crayon

/ ˈkreɪən; -ɒn /

noun

  1. a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment
  2. a drawing made with crayons
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to draw or colour with crayons
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦°ù²¹²â´Ç²Ô¾±²õ³Ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦°ù²¹²âo²Ô·¾±²õ³Ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of crayon1

1635–45; < French, equivalent to craie chalk (< Latin ³¦°ùŧ³Ù²¹ clay, chalk) + -on noun suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of crayon1

C17: from French, from craie, from Latin ³¦°ùŧ³Ù²¹ chalk
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When one of her enslaved piglets colors a picture with crayons, she turns him into a pork chop.

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It’s so obvious, it’s practically unconscious — like being told to crayon a great painting and selecting the “Mona Lisa.â€

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The future Queen Elizabeth I was 12 years old at the time — long past the age in which a ghastly crayon drawing of dad would suffice.

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No one had yet gotten to a second-floor classroom that was in disarray, with crayons, books and papers dumped on the floor and chairs overturned.

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An abandoned jigsaw puzzle was unfinished at the dining room table, and children’s drawings and a note in red crayon wishing for a “wonderful life†clung to the refrigerator.

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