wrinkle

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To begin with a wrinkle is a wound in your skin.

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  1. noun A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
  2. noun A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
  3. noun A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.
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  1. Middle English, back-formation from wrinkled, wrinkled, probably from Old English gewrinclod, past participle of gewrinclian, to wind, crease; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wrinkil, wrinkel, wrincle, wrynkyl, from Anglo-Saxon *wrincle (Somner) = Middle Dutch wrinckel, wrynckel, a wrinkle; a diminutive form, perhaps from the root of wring, v. The Icelandic hrukka = Swedish rynka = Danish rynke, a wrinkle, appear to be of different origin: see ruck.
  2. = Middle Dutch wrinckelen, wrynckelen; from the noun.
  3. A particular use, orig. slang, of wrinkle, n. According to Skeat, it is a diminutive of Middle English wrink, wrenk, from Anglo-Saxon wrenc, a trick: see wrench, n.
 

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