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Wrinkle
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
- 2 A winkle US, dialectal
- 3 a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) wordnet
- 4 A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
"Spending time out in the sun may cause you to develop wrinkles sooner."
- 5 a minor difficulty wordnet
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- 6 A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
"Three months later, we're still discovering new wrinkles."
- 7 a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface wordnet
- 8 A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
"There were now a grab bag of southern country-rock units with a new wrinkle—Black Oak Arkansas, for one, combined psychedelia, fifties rock, Hindu spiritualism, and gospel into “psycho-boogie,” or “raunch 'n' roll.”"
- 1 To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles. transitive
"Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive."
- 2 become wrinkled or crumpled or creased wordnet
- 3 To pucker or become uneven or irregular. intransitive
"An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle."
- 4 make wrinkled or creased wordnet
- 5 To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age. intransitive
"The skin is the substance that wrinkles, shows age, stretches, scars and cuts."
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- 6 make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic wordnet
- 7 To sneer (at). intransitive, obsolete
"Ther's some weakenes in your brother you wrinkle at"
- 8 gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English wrinkle, wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the verb (see below). Cognate with Dutch wrinkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Compare also Middle English runkel (“wrinkle”), from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkǭ (“wrinkle, crease”), whence also French fronce (“crooked smile, scowl, frown”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”).
From Middle English wrynklen, wrinklen (“to wrinkle”), from Old English *wrinclian (attested in past participle ġewrinclod (“wrinkled, crooked, winding”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch wronckelen, wrinckelen (“to wind, wrap, meander”), modern dialectal Dutch wrinkelen (“to wrinkle”). Compare also Middle English runklen (“to wrinkle, become wrinkled”).
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