Crossword clues for crinkle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crinkle \Crin"kle\, n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear
double.
--A. Tucker.
Crinkle \Crin"kle\ (kr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (-kl[i^]ng).] [A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe.] To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
The house?s crinkled to and fro.
--Chaucer.
Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled,
Wondrously wrinkled.
--Skelton.
The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes.
--Mrs.
Browning.
Crinkle \Crin"kle\, v. i. 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.
The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
--L. T.
Trowbridge.
And all the rooms
Were full of crinkling silks.
--Mrs.
Browning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from frequentative of Old English crincan, variant of cringan "to bend, yield" (see cringe). Related: Crinkled; crinkling. As a noun from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. A wrinkle, fold, crease(,) or unevenness. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad. 2 (context intransitive English) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Crinkle may refer to:
- Crinkle Crags, a fell in the English Lake District
- Crinkle-cutting, a cutting technique in cooking
- Chocolate crinkle, a kind of chocolate-flavored cookie covered in white powdered sugar.
Usage examples of "crinkle".
Hanging sixty feet from the ground in a slim, shuttered window, Bodhi sneered at the patch of crinkled gray-brown horizon that would soon enough explode into a light that would fry her to ashes with its first tentative reawakening.
He looked helplessly from one committeeman to another, his face chalk-white in the flickering light that danced across the ceiling from the reHecffon of the sun on the crinkled water of the Medway.
Bentley, and flicked a glance across the table at Merrie, seeing her mask crinkle in answer.
His ruddy features, usually so cheerful and crinkling, were set and grim: his gaze, heavy-lidded and troubled, rested on Captain Vallery and he wondered just what kind of private hell that kindly and sensitive man was suffering right then.
The crinkles made the silver thread that was woven throughout sparkle when a shaft of light came in contact with it.
Jake looked quickly at the smouldering globe of the sun, the crinkles around his eyes puckering up thoughtfully as he listened to the heated argument in Arabic taking place on the poop deck.
I expected crinkled quids in old tennis shorts, fivers in the pockets of jeans, tenners under the sofa cushion, twenties in the jar on the shelf.
The good-humored, friendly crinkles about his eyes were white with tension and oily with grime as he kept unrolling an interminable bandage around the bulky cotton compress Yossarian felt strapped burdensomely to the inside of one thigh.
The lamp light shines on his hair and the crinkle of his eyelids as he looks down and carves, whittles, turns.
The crinkle of folding giftpaper and the zip of cellotape from a dispenser was followed by careful placement into what I presume was a handled shopping bag.
If a leaf of the paper, which I warily, thievishly, moved, made but one rustle, how did that reveille boom through the haunted halls of my heart, and there was a cough in my swallow which for long I shirked to cough, till it burst with pitiless turbulence from my lips, sending crinkles of cold through my very soul: for with the words which I read were all mixed up visions of hearses crawling, palls, and wails, and crapes, and piercing shrieks of distraction pealing through vaults of catacombs, and all the mournfulness of that valley of shadow, and the tragedy of corruption.
But Belwar narrowed his dark gray eyes and crinkled his hooked nose, beginning to understand what the king was leading up to.
The crinkled man scuffled his feet on the mat, rubbed his spectacles on his dirty overalls, and followed him in.
The crinkled man's long crinkled face regarded him closely, immense compassion in the eyes.
The crinkled man seemed unable to understand how irritated he was, which of course made the irritation all the greater.