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crinkle - 6 dictionary results

crin⋅kle

[kring-kuhl] verb, -kled, -kling, noun
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1. to wrinkle; crimple; ripple.
2. to make slight, sharp sounds; rustle.
3. to turn or wind in many little bends and twists.
–noun
4. a wrinkle or ripple.
5. a crinkling sound.
6. a turn or twist.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME crinklen; akin to OE crincan to bend, yield, D krinkelen to crinkle; see cringle, cringe, crank, -le
crin·kle   (krĭng'kəl)   
v.   crin·kled, crin·kling, crin·kles

v.   intr.
  1. To form wrinkles or ripples.
  2. To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.
v.   tr.
To cause to crinkle.
n.  A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.

[From Middle English crinkled, full of turnings.]
crin'kly adj.

Crinkle

Crin"kle\ (kr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (-kl[i^]ng).] [A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe.] To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

The house?s crinkled to and fro. --Chaucer.

Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. --Skelton.

The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. --Mrs. Browning.

Crinkle

Crin"kle\, v. i. To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

The green wheat crinkles like a lake. --L. T. Trowbridge.

And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. --Mrs. Browning.

Crinkle

Crin"kle\, n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. --A. Tucker.
Language Translation for : crinkle
Spanish: arrugar(se),
German: sich kräuseln,
Japanese: しわが寄る

crinkle 
c.1385, from freq. of O.E. crincan, var. of cringan "to bend, yield" (see cringe).
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