crackling
IPA: krˈækɫɪŋ
noun
- (cooking, often in the plural, US) Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens
- (cooking, in the singular in Britain) The crispy rind of roast pork.
- (cooking, countable) A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
- The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
- (obsolete, usually in the plural) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
- Three stripes of velvet worn on the sleeves of students at St John's College, Cambridge.
adjective
- Sounding with small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
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Examples of "crackling" in Sentences
- Each bear-related portion of the book is full of zest and life and a kind of crackling energy.
- The sounds were described as crackling, and seemed to depend on movements of the arch of the palate.
- And in the Dante Valentine books there was a whole lot of "crackling" of blood and magic going on as well.
- CRISP PORK BELLY, SWEET PEACH SALSA Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential.
- Boatman never knows what's coming next, even as he checks dispatch calls crackling over his radio - a necessary distraction.
- In my brief testing on one phone call, the recipient reported degradation in calling quality -- "crackling" -- after the bars receded to none.
- (pork crackling -- and a Spanish word), making every bite a delectable combination of mildly fishy prawn and savory pork flavors, the crunch of the chicharron contrasting nicely with the slippery noodles.
- It was a magnificent display of the phenomenon, and I feel certain that my attention was first attracted to it by the crackling sound which appeared to accompany the motion of the pale flames as they streamed across the sky; indeed, _crackling_, is not the word that properly describes the sound I heard, which was precisely that made by the _flickering_ of blazing fire; and as I have often since read and heard discussions upon the question whether the motion of the aurora is or is not accompanied by an audible sound, I can only say that on this occasion it was the sound that first induced me to observe the sheets of white light that were leaping up the sky.