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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrinkly

Wrinkly \Wrin"kly\, a. Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
--G. Eliot.

His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last.
--Carlyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wrinkly

early 15c. (in reference to the penis), from wrinkle (n.) + -y (2). As teen slang noun for "old person," from 1972 ("old" being relative; a British reference from 1982 applies it to people in their 40s).

Wiktionary
wrinkly

a. Having wrinkles. n. (context informal English) An old person.

WordNet
wrinkly

adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks" [syn: wrinkled]

Usage examples of "wrinkly".

Mitchum and Glassman can search the nuke-shitting jungle for us till they chill as wrinklies.

A little man, so wizened even his bald head was wrinkly, a paintpot dangling over his arm, careened into me as I came through the door.

So gladdied up when nicechild Kevin Mary (who was going to be commandeering chief of the choirboys' brigade the moment he grew up under all the auspices) irishsmiled in his milky way of cream dwibble and onage tustard and dessed tabbage, frighted out when badbrat Jerry Godolphing (who was hurrying to be cardinal scullion in a night refuge as bald as he was cured enough unerr all the hospitals) furrinfrowned down his wrinkly waste of methylated spirits, ick,and lemoncholy lees, ick, and pulverised rhubarbarorum, icky.

Lose your hair, muscles shrink up, you get wrinkly and bony, and then you die of a heart attack, or pneumonia .

You aren't like some of the other wrinklies that" She stopped as though she'd been on the verge of saying something she shouldn't have.

You fucking wrinklies come into our ville and make like you own the place!

On his right sat Hermione, who, with Bob, were the only wrinklies invited and who spent most of the lunch happily reading out faxes from New York of her Salome reviews, which, despite Meredith's sniping, had been excellent.

Young boys didn't fancy hoary wrinklies, although it was clear from the suicidal way she felt now the reverse was possible.

Oh, there is a great redwood that is said to be seven thousand years old, and living bacteria found in the gut of a frozen mastodon were more than eleven thousand years old—but such wrinklies are rare.

The wrinklies, it seemed as if they just gave up on you as soon as they realized they were safe.

Either these techs had the wrinkliest hands in the world, or they'd discovered a cure for sweaty palms that he hadn't heard about yet.

It was the wrinkliest, shriveledest face he had ever seen, and only about the size of a fist.