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Crinkle
Definitions
- 1 A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
"He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old."
- 2 a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface wordnet
- 3 The act of crinkling.
- 1 To fold, crease, crumple, or wad. ambitransitive
"He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out."
- 2 become wrinkled or crumpled or creased wordnet
- 3 To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. intransitive
"The green wheat crinkles like a lake."
- 4 make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
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