crinkle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.

   He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.

2. 2
   verb

   To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

   The green wheat crinkles like a lake.

3. 3
   noun

   A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

   He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.

4. 4
   noun

   a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

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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