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wrinkly

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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.

[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.]

wrinkly adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.wrinkly - marked by wrinkles; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes"
furrowed, rugged - having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
Translations
wrinkly [ˈrɪŋklɪ]
A. ADJ (wrinklier (compar) (wrinkliest (superl))) = wrinkled
B. N (Brit) → viejo/a m/f
wrinkly [ˈrɪŋkli]
adj
[fabric] → fripé(e); [surface] → ridé(e)
[face, skin] → ridé(e)
n (British) (= old person) → vioque mf >
wrinkly
adj (+er)schrumpelig; fabriczerknittert
n (Brit inf: = old person) → Opa m (inf), → Oma f (inf)


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Against the wrinkly mirror stood pictures of General Kitchener, William Muldoon, the Duchess of Marlborough, and Benvenuto Cellini.
Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIR-PINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.
Waule found it good to be there every day for hours, without other calculable occupation than that of observing the cunning Mary Garth (who was so deep that she could be found out in nothing) and giving occasional dry wrinkly indications of crying-- as if capable of torrents in a wetter season--at the thought that they were not allowed to go into Mr.
 
 
 
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