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Crackling   /krˈæklɪŋ/   Listen
Crackling

noun
1.
The residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered.  Synonym: greaves.
2.
The sharp sound of snapping noises.  Synonyms: crackle, crepitation.


Crackle

verb
1.
Make a crackling sound.  Synonym: crepitate.
2.
Make a crushing noise.  Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch.
3.
To become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks.



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"Crackling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the 'men,' all in their academicals, as it is Sunday. The blue gown of Trinity has not exclusive possession of its own walks: various others are to be discerned, the Pembroke looped at the sleeve, the Christ's and Catherine curiously crimped in front, and the Johnian with its unmistakable 'Crackling.'"—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
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... bought that paper from said so; go back and ask him. Oh, joy, that looks good!" said Norma, eyeing the pudding that was now being drawn, crackling, bubbling, and crisp, from the oven. "Rose and I fell over the new lineoleum in the hall; I thought it was a dead body!" she went on, cheerfully. "I came down on my family feature with such a ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
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... jumped the ditch and disappeared. For a few seconds the crackling of twigs on the bushes, and the sound of steps among the underbrush, was heard. Then all ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
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... performer, once attained, may be afterwards misdirected, in slavery to popular passion or childishness, and spend itself, at its sweetest, in idle melodies, cold and ephemeral (like Michael Angelo's snow statue in the other art), or else in vicious difficulty and miserable noise—crackling of thorns under the pot of public sensuality—still, the attainment of this power, and the maintenance of it, involve always in the executant some virtue or courage of high kind; the understanding of which, and of the difference between the discipline which develops it and the disorderly ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin
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... of Stagholme was positively crackling with an excitement which even her best friend could not have called suppressed. There was no suppression ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
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