Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing.
- noun A drawing made with one of these sticks.
- transitive verb To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sketch or draw with a crayon.
- Hence To sketch in general; plan; commit to paper one's first thoughts.
- noun A pencil-shaped piece of colored clay, chalk, or charcoal, used for drawing upon paper.
- noun A pencil made of a composition of soap, resin, wax, and lampblack, used for drawing upon lithographic stones.
- noun One of the carbon-points in an electric lamp.
- Drawn with crayons: as, a crayon sketch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
- noun A crayon drawing.
- noun (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
- noun cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing.
- noun the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.
- transitive verb To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A stick of colored
chalk orwax used for drawing. - verb To draw with a crayon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
- verb write, draw, or trace with a crayon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Unclutter Your Life in One Week Erin Rooney Doland 2009
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Larry brought red, white and black candles into their home, drew a sigil of Baphomet in crayon on a dresser and used a kitchen knife to draw his own blood, according to Marla.
Mother, community search for answers in death of two girls killed in ritual 2009
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Their opinion couldn't matter less around here if they wrote it in crayon on a cocktail napkin.
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In his hands he held a well-worn drawing in crayon of two stick people lying in a hammock.
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Now all I need to discover is how to remove crayon from the TV screen … ideas anyone?
Use Hairspray To Remove Ink From Fabric In A Pinch | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Btw, the shiny paper is useful - it allows you to rub out any additions made in crayon * bite back of hand*
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They could hold up a slogan written in crayon with backwards ‘Rs’ and nobody would be the wiser.
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Who wants to attend these hate mongering events with tons of hillbillys drawing "NOBAMA" signs in crayon while yelling out lies?
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Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain.
Christian Faur's crayon art The Nag 2009
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The letter received by the Olympics Committee was written in crayon with so many spelling and grammatical errors that it was nearly unreadable.
Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies. 2010
uselessness commented on the word crayon
Pronounced "cran," or maybe "cray-un," but certainly never "crown."
October 31, 2007
cathari commented on the word crayon
What, isn't it pronounced, you know, "cray-on"? I'm pretty sure I've never said it "cray-un"...
November 1, 2007
uselessness commented on the word crayon
Yeah, I guess you could say it that way too. There is a difference between the way the two sound, but to my ears it's negligible. Maybe you speak with a dialect that makes it more pronounced?
November 1, 2007
cathari commented on the word crayon
Possibly. Or maybe I just enunciate more than average (am I really the only one in this area who pronounces "sandwich" as it's spelled?)
November 1, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word crayon
I pronounce crayon, when I'm not enunciating carefully, as something like an elongated "cran." Maybe more like "craon"--somewhere between one and two syllables.
I pronounce sandwich as "sandwich," or maybe a little like "sanwich." I don't like sammich at all--but some people on Wordie really love it.
November 1, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word crayon
I am decidedly a member of the "crown" camp. So how's about them apples?
November 2, 2007
pterodactyl commented on the word crayon
See this map for American pronunciation.
April 10, 2008