crinkle

Meaning

Verb

1. To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
2. To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

Noun

1. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
2. The act of crinkling

Synonyms

wrinkle

crease

crumple

pucker

furrow

crimp

rumple

crisp

ruck

rustle

line

curl

ruckle

seam

crimple

fold

scrunch up

scrunch

frizz

ruffle

twist

wave

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wimple

make a rustling sound

rimple

bend

wrinkle crease

cockle

contract

corrugate

corrugation

cower

crackle

cringe

crouch

curve

gather

knit

muss

plait

ply

ripple

shrink

shrinkage

shrivel

tuck

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɹɪŋkəl/

Etymology

From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.