crinkly

English

Etymology

From crinkle + -y.

Adjective

crinkly (comparative crinklier or more crinkly, superlative crinkliest or most crinkly)

  1. That crinkles.
    • 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:
      Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.
  2. Having crinkles; wrinkly.
    • 1912, John Galsworthy, Quality:
      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; []
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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.

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Noun

crinkly (plural crinklies)

  1. (derogatory) An old person.

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