Wrinkly (redirected from wrinklie)

wrin·kle  (rngkl)

n.

1. A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.

2. A line or crease in the skin, as from age.

3. A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.

4. A problem or imperfection; a fault: The report had to be revised because of a few wrinkles.

v. wrin·kled, wrin·kling, wrin·kles

v.tr.

1. To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.

2. To draw up into wrinkles; pucker: wrinkled her nose in disdain.

v.intr.

To form wrinkles.

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[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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wrinkly adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

wrinkly - marked by wrinkles; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes" wrinkled furrowed, rugged - having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"