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单词 clinkery
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clinkeryadj.1

Etymology: Apparently < clinker v.1 + -y suffix1. The actual history however is obscure, for the only example of the verb is of much later date than the adjective, and in fact occurs in Batman's alteration of Trevisa's ‘makeþ clynkery’.
Obsolete. rare.
Contracted or shrivelled with heat or cold.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > relating to contraction > into wrinkles > contracted into wrinkles
clungc1325
clinkery1398
hirpleda1400
clunged1495
wrinkled?1523
shrivelled1565
rivelled1601
puckered1606
rivelled1627
shrimped1638
truss1674
pursed1676
wizened1728
weazen1765
wizen1786
nirled1808
beshrivelled1821
weazened1842
weazeny1864
concertinaed1880
swivelled1898
scrunty1947
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ix. vi. (Tollem. MS.) Somer dryeþ mareis and mores and wasteþ moysture and makeþ hem rouȝe and harde and clynkery [so 1495; ed. 1582 clinkerie; L. desiccat, et exasperat, et indurat] and full of pittes and holes.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xi. iii. (Tollem. MS.) He [the North Wind]..makeþ bodies on erþe rouȝe and klynkery with his coldnesse and drynesse [L. terræ et corporum facit asperitates].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

clinkeryadj.2

/ˈklɪŋkəri/
Etymology: < clinker n.1 + -y suffix1.
Resembling clinkers.
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1884 C. Lyell Student's Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) xxix. 463 The lava in cooling assumes a clinkery appearance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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