Crinkle

Definition: Crinkle

Crinkle

Noun

1. A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles".

Verb

1. Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled".

2. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crinkle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Industry

Mining

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Synonyms: Crinkle

Angularity

Verb: bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Crosswords: Crinkle

I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts (When Harry Met Sally...; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

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Books

• Bible Cover Black Crinkle Nylon Colorado Collection Style #Col11 (reference)

• Crinkleroot's Visit to Crinkle Cove (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Faux Your Home - Crinkle Style Custom Wallpaper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Kodak Gear Crinkle Nylon Collection Compact Case (Black) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "crinkle": crinkle root. Additional references.

Beginning with "crinkle": crinkle-crankle, crinkle-cut, crinkle-faced.

Albanian

Zhubros (corrugate, crease, crumple, crush, dishevel, wrinkle), Rrudhë (cockle, corrugation, crease, furrow, pucker, ruckle, rugosity, seam, wrinkle), Ricë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تغضن (cockle, corrugate, crumple, furrow, pucker, ruffle, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏تجعد (corrugate, crease, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, furrow, pucker, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏خشخشة (clank, clatter, clink, jingle, rattle, rumbling, rustle, rustling, tinkle), ‏جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle, rumple), ‏إهانة (affront, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, mortification, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чупка (bend, crease, kink, return, traverse), Накъдрям, Набръчквам, �"ънка, Бръчка, Извивка, Шумоля. (various references)

Czech

Zmuchlat (crumple, crush, rumple), Zmaèkat (rumple, screw up, wrinkle), Záhyb (crease, fold, gather, meander, plait, ply, pucker, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), Vráska (pucker, ruck, wrinkle), Klikatit Se (wander). (various references)

Danish

crinkle. (various references)

Farsi 

پیچاندن (Contort, Curl, Reeve, Screw, Turquoise, Twitch, Waggle, Wrest, Wring), مضرس (Serrate), تاب دادن (Swag), زیگ زاگ , دندانه دندانه (Serrate). (various references)

French

crinkle, Crêpage (Crimp), Chiffonner (crease, crumple), Froissement (creasing, crumpling). (various references)

German

knittern (crease, crush, to crinkle, wrinkle). (various references)

Greek 

Ζάρωμα, Ζαρώνω, Τσαλακώνω, � τυχή. (various references)

Hebrew 

קמט ֳק. (various references)

Hungarian

ránc (crease, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, furrow, pleat, plica, pucker, puckering, ruckle, wimple, wrinkle), redő (crease, crinkling, fold, pleat, pucker, wimple, wrinkle). (various references)

Indonesian

berkerut (corrugate). (various references)

Italian

crinkle, Crespa, Piega (bends, crease, fold, inclines, plait, pleat, ply, tuck, turn, twist, wrinkle), Incresparsi (ripple, ruffle), Increspare (gather, pucker, purse, ripple, ruck, ruckle, ruffle), Grinza (crease, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, wrinkle), Arricciarsi (curl, frizzle), Arricciare (become curly, Crimp, curl, dimple, frill, frizz, frizzle, pucker). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

かさかさ鳴る (burning hotly, clattering, clink, cucumber, exactly, flare up, flying into a rage, frozen solid, I wonder, knocking, obstinate, scared stiff, set rock hard, tick-tock, tightly, to crinkle, to grow numb with cold, to make a rustling sound, to rustle, with a click). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かさかさなる (to crinkle, to make a rustling sound, to rustle). (various references)

Manx

filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap), craplaghey (contract, corrugate, purse, stunt, wrinkle). (various references)

Pig Latin

inklecray.(various references)

Portuguese

ruga (cockle, crease, crumple, fold, furrow, plica, pucker, ripple, wrinkle), ondular (coif, corrugate, crimp, curl, dimple, flaunt, frizz, poise, popple, ripple, splatter, undulate, wave), método Knit-DeKnit, enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crumple, crush, fret, furrow, pucker, ripple, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle), dobra (crease, crumple, double, fold, gather, kink, lap, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle). (various references)

Romanian

Se Mototoli (crumple, ruck), Se Încreţi (Crimp), Pliu (crease), Plisa (Crimp, draw, enfold, fold, frill, full, goffer, pleat, ruffle, tuck), Mototoli (crumple, crush, Rive, ruffle, rumple, tumble), Fald (flow, fold), Încreţi (Crimp). (various references)

Russian 

Морщина, морщить (corrugate), Изгиб, Извиваться, Извилина, Складка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naborati (wrinkle), nabor (crease, fold, frill, goffer, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), borati se (wrinkle), bora (plica, shrink, wrinkle). (various references)

Spanish

arruga (cockle, crease, fold, furrow, kink, line, pucker, ridge, ruck, ruffle, rumple, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Swedish

Vecka (corrugate, crease, crimp, enfold, fold, frill, frounce, plait, pleat, ruck, ruffle, sennight, shirr, week), Veck (cockle, convolution, crease, Crimp, fold, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ruck, ruckle, tuck, wrinkle), Rynka (crease, frill, furrow, gather, knit, line, pleat, pucker, shirr, wringkle, wrinkle). (various references)

Turkish

Kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, crumple up, flirt with, frill, furrow, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), Kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, crumple, frill, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), Kırışık (corrugation, crease, crinkly, crisp, crispy, furrow, liny, pucker, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), Hışırdatmak (rustle, scrunch), Hışırdamak (crunch, rustle, sizzle, sough, swish, whisper), Buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), Buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, crumple, crush, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle). (various references)

Ukrainian

Морщитися, Згинатися, Згин, Звиватися, Звивина, Зморшка, Завивати (Crimp), Складка. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nếp nhăn (crease, pucker), nếp nh� u khúc cong, khúc uốn quanh (crankle), khúc quanh co (crankle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crinkle": crinkled, crinkles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crinkle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chinkuli, Crankley, Creakle, Crendle, crickle, crink, Crinkley, Freinkel, Krankl, Krikalev, Kronfli, Rinkel, rinkle, Shrinkle, Trinkle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clinker.

-1 letter: licker, linker, nickel, nicker, nickle, relink.

-2 letters: clerk, cline, clink, icker, inker, inkle, liken, liker, liner, nicer, reink, relic.

-3 letters: ceil, cine, cire, keir, kern, kier, kiln, kine, kirn, lice, lick, lien, lier, like, line, link, lire, neck, nice, nick, reck, rein, rice, rick, riel, rile, rink.

-4 letters: cel, elk, ern, ice, ick, ilk.

+1 letter: clerking, clinkers, clunkier, crinkled, crinkles.

+2 letters: clinkered, crinklier, freckling, interlock, knucklier, lackering, relocking, truckline, unluckier.

+3 letters: bucklering, clinkering, crinkliest, flickering, interlocks, linebacker, pincerlike, retackling, silkscreen, trancelike, trucklines.

+4 letters: cartoonlike, cinderblock, cupronickel, forelocking, interlocked, linebackers, prickliness, racewalking, silkscreens, trickledown.

+5 letters: cinderblocks, cupronickels, flickeringly, interlocking, pumpernickel, racewalkings, schnorkeling, stickhandler.