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▪ I. crinkle, n.|ˈkrɪŋk(ə)l|
[prob. f. crinkle v., but the n. may be the earlier: cf. Du. and LG. krinkel curve, flexure, crookedness, curvature, dim. of kring, krink circle, etc.]
1. A twist, winding, or sinuosity; a wrinkle or corrugation, as in a rumpled or rippling surface.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 50 The vnflattered picture of Pedantisme, that hath no one smile or crinkle more than it should. 1598Florio, Tortuoso, crooked, winding, full of crinkles and crankles. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. iv. 17 Ilion the third [gut], which consists of many crinckles. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 563 The crinkles in this glass making objects appear double. 1871M. E. Braddon Lovels xvi. 128 To blow the crinkles out of their luxuriant hair. 1885J. Runciman Skippers 2 His oilskins..poured multitudinous streams from all their crinkles.
†2. A ring or circle. Obs. rare—1. (Cf. cringle.)
1703Art's Improv. I. 19 Of the Crincles or Rings which are seen at the end of Trees when Saw'd off.
3. crinkle-cut a.: of potato chips, etc., cut with corrugated or crinkly, as opp. to straight, sides (cf. chip n.1 2 b).
1968Times 29 Nov. p. xi/1, If muzak be the food of love, no wonder it is commonly to be found—whether in supermarkets or eateries—among the frozen mint-flavoured peas and the crinkle-cut chips. 1969[see hash browns s.v. hash n.1 6]. 1984S. Townsend Growing Pains A. Mole 59 He went to the pub and had a microwave mince and onion pie and crinkle-cut chips.
▪ II. crinkle, v.|ˈkrɪŋk(ə)l|
Also 4 cr-, krenkle, cr-, krynkle, 6 crencle.
[Frequentative derivative from stem of OE. crincan; see crank n.1, and cf. crankle. As the ME. form is sometimes crenkle (see crinkled), the type seems to be *crankil-, whence *crenclian.]
I.
1. intr. To form numerous short twists or turns; to wind or twist in its course; to contract surface wrinkles or ripples; to wrinkle or shrink up.
c1385,a1529[see crinkled]. 1577,1621[see crinkling vbl. n., ppl. a.]. a1600Boy & Mantle xxviii. in Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ball. (1884) II. 273/1 Vpp att her great toe, itt [the mantle] began to crinkle and crowt. 1864Mrs. Gatty Parables fr. Nat. 4th Ser. 12 The last leaves..had crinkled up and turned brown. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 132 It [a stream] seemed to ripple and crinkle. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., Crinkle, to bend tortuously. Of a twisting pathway, it will be said: ‘It crinkles round, but goes straight at after’. [In Dial. Glossaries of Cheshire, Lincolnsh., Leicestersh., etc. = ‘to wrinkle, crumple, shrink, shrivel up’.]
2. To bend shrinkingly or obsequiously with the legs or body; to cringe. Obs. exc. dial.
1633Shirley Bird in Cage ii. i, The other signor crinkles in the hams, as he were studying new postures against his turn comes to salute me. 1633Ford 'Tis Pity i. ii, I like him the worse, he crinkles so much in the hams. 1719[see cringe v. 2]. 1825Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words, Crinkle, to wrinkle, to bend under a load. 1875Lanc. Gloss., Crinkle, to bend under a weight.
b. fig. To turn aside, to shrink or recede from one's purpose. Obs. exc. dial.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iii. v, He that hath pleas'd her Grace Thus farre, shall not now crinckle for a little. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Crinkle, to crouch; to yield sneakingly. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss., Crinckle, to recede, or fall off from a promise or purpose. 1873Swaledale Gloss., Crinkle, to recede from an avowed resolution or the performance of a promise.
3. trans. To twist or bend (anything) to and fro, or in and out; to wrinkle, crumple; to crimp (the hair). (See also crinkled ppl. a.)
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Crinkle, Crunkle, to wrinkle, twist, plait, or rumple irregularly. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh viii. (1857) 358 The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-hot devils crinkled into snakes. 1871M. E. Braddon Lovels xvi. 128 Miss Granger was too perfect a being to crinkle her hair. 1888Berksh. Gloss., Crinkle, to crease; to rumple.
II.
4. intr. To emit sharp thin ringing sounds; to move with these sounds. [Cf. crink v.2]
1856, etc. [see crinkling ppl. a. II]. 1878R. W. Gilder Poet & M. 19 Small brooks crinkle o'er stock and stone. |