crinkly
nounEtymology From crinkle + -y.
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Derogatory An old person.
- Synonyms
- antique, coffin dodger, wrinkly
crinkly
adjEtymology From crinkle + -y.
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That crinkles.
- Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:
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Having crinkles; wrinkly.
- Himself, he was a little as if made from leather, with his yellow crinkly face, and crinkly reddish hair and beard; and neat folds slanting down his cheeks to the corners of his mouth, and his guttural and one-toned voice;[…]1912, John Galsworthy, Quality:
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- bewrinkled, rugose, wrinklesome
- Derived terms
- crinkliness, scrunkly