Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To form wrinkles or ripples.
- v. To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.
- v. To cause to crinkle.
- n. A wrinkle, ripple, or fold.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To form or mark with short curves, waves, or wrinkles; make with many flexures; mold into corrugations; corrugate.
- To turn or wind; bend; wrinkle; be marked by short waves or ripples; curl; be corrugated or crimped.
- To cringe.
- n. A wrinkle; a turn or twist; a ripple; a corrugation.
Wiktionary
- v. To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
- n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
- v. 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.
- n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
- v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- n. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English crincan (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English crinkled, full of turnings. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Final question, the -- because I have the same skepticism that what I would describe as the crinkle effect.”
“Fabrics that are textured like linen, wool, or even "crinkle" fabrics can distract the eye from bumps and bulges.”
“After lunch, just greasy things in crinkle bags, I climb behind him on the bike.”
“The crinkle of the paper as my father sat on the small examining table and the quiet creak of the door as the doctor walked in.”
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“The bags do crinkle loudly, though hardly like the "revving motorcycle" reported in the Wall Street Journal.”
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“It is a history of ceaseless, demented innovation: the first time a blue twist of salt was included; the arrival of ready-salted (the sliced bread moment); the cheese-and-onion Tayto; the invention of prawn-cocktail powder; crinkle cut, thick cut, square cut, jacket on, "gourmet," kettle fried ...”
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“SKIP the cajun-seasoned French Fries unless they upgrade to fresh potatoes ..... today they were just heavily seasoned, frozen crinkle-cut factory fries.”
“The shake was good (too bad I drank it all on the way back – dessert first!), the fries were okay (crunchy crinkle-cut and not too salty) and burger was decent (enjoyed eating it at my desk) but not nearly as solid for me as their Double ShakeBurger IMO (I guess I needs more meat!!).”
“While I know Shake Shack gets lots of ink b/c its indie and all, but they serve orida crinkle fries.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crinkle’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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VNCle
N stands for 'nasal', not 'n'
pimple, bungle, spindle, handle, amble, humble, simple, dimple, winkle, tinkle, single, dingle and 53 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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yarb All that remains of eights
is spray pounded into white powder wafted
a second, the surface crinkled a moment
and then reverting to flawed glass, clap
of blades re-echoed between black banks before
drowning, before they lose way to the tow.
- Peter Reading, Severn at Worcester, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008