Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To rumple; crinkle or wrinkle.
- To cry like a crane.
Wiktionary
- v. UK, obsolete, dialectal To crumple.
Examples
“Or examples of authors who use typewriters and not computers because they like that crunkle of paper?”
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“He was in a crunkle o 'green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a' by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin '.”
“Susan Kelz Sperling cites three such words: blore (like a sheep), crunkle (like a crane), and winx (like a donkey).”
“o ''t, and crunkle 't up in 's han', luikin his greediest.”
“She threw me a paper across the table that I kenned for Maxwell's by the crunkle o 'the sheets.”
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crunkle’.
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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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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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alternative spellings
medieval spellings of common words that have a certain spell to them
bewtie, vertew, gramarye, musterion, makeless, moond, sparkill, briddes, lullay, pursew, gentilness, delightsome and 37 more...
Tweets
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