crinklingn.1
/ˈkrɪŋkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lɪŋ/ The action of crinkle v.1; the result of this; a crinkle; a pattern of crinkles.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [noun] > wrinkled condition > wrinkle or crease > series of
wrinkling1495
crinkling1587
crimping1734
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xiv. 83/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The Wiuer than which..no riuer in England..fetcheth more or halfe so many windlesses and crinklings.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) iii. iv. 46 The curious crinkling of a silke stocking.
1708 W. King Art of Cookery 6 Who cares for all the Crinkling of your Pye?
1776 Lady A. Miller Lett. from Italy I. ix. 81 They have, by their scolloping and crinkling, spoiled the rock chrystal as much as possible.
1835 Gardener's Mag. Oct. 549 There will be no longer any vigorous shoots in the extremities;..but instead, a curling or crinkling of the spray or terminal branches.
1891 Daily News 20 May 3/1 Much of the crêpon is crinkled like the surface of cream... Sometimes this crinkling runs in stripes.
1939 B. Tarkington Some Old Portraits 68 From the top of the picture down—past the lighted forehead to the lowest broad Lely-brown crinklings of the skirt—the painting is completely expert.
2007 R. N. Patterson Race 281 Christy's own smile was a crinkling of the eyes.
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crinklingn.2
/ˈkrɪŋkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lɪŋ/ The emitting of a series of sharp, thin crackling or rustling sounds.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > crackling
crackling1599
crickle-crackle1637
crepitation1656
decrepitation1669
crinkling1823
crackle1833
crinkle1859
snap, crackle, pop1954
1823 Monitor Nov. 381 The thunder's dread voice, and the terrific crinkling of heaven's fire made many an Indian's soul quake within him.
1854 W. G. Simms Southward Ho! xiii. iv. 276 Her way lay through a wilderness of leaves..and their constant crinkling beneath her tread..suggested to her the means of safety.
1880 7th Rep. Topog. Surv. Adirondack Region 157 The sharp ‘crinkling’ of the runners of the large hand-sleds.
1978 T. Hughes Cave Birds 8 Among crinkling of oak-leaves—an effulgence, Occasionally glimpsed.
1999 C. Holz Semi-detached ix. 141 The chomp she made as she chewed and the crinkling of the popcorn bag keyed him up even more.
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crinklingn.3
/ˈkrɪŋkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lɪŋ/α. East Anglian 1800s crinchling.
β. 1800s crinckling (Gloucestershire), 1800s– crinklin' (Oxfordshire), 1800s– crinkling (chiefly west midlands).
γ. East Anglian 1800s– chringling, 1800s– cringling.
English regional (East Anglian and midlands)
A small apple.
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Crinchling, a small apple.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 379 Crinkling, a small precocious apple.
1881 Suppl. Oxfordsh. Gloss. Crinklin', a small wrinkled apple.
a1898 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) I. 797/1 You must not get any of the apples but the crinklings.
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crinklingadj.1
/ˈkrɪŋkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lɪŋ/ That twists, winds, or bends; (in later use) esp. that forms into small wrinkles or creases.
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1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. iii. f. 71/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Manifolde water, so called bycause of ye sundrie crinckling rils that it receyueth.
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iv. ii. 227 Running with a crinkeling course as far as Lions.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) ix. l. 127 Her legs are two faint crinckling Props.
1849 G. B. Cheever Windings of River of Water of Life ix. 93 Sometimes his heart rejoices in God like a water-brook, again it is like a dry, crinkling, leathern bottle in the smoke.
1898 M. Deland Old Chester Tales 157 It was perhaps unfortunate that Mrs. Dale should have tried to make the child take the crinkling scum [in scalded milk] in the first place.
1976 A. Rice Interview with Vampire (1977) iii. 217 On the crinkling posters of penny-dreadful vampires with their outstretched arms and cloaks resembling bat wings.
1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter ii. x. 213 The..journal..is an old financial ledger with a marbleized cover and crinkling yellowish pages.
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crinklingadj.2
/ˈkrɪŋkl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lɪŋ/ Emitting thin, sharp, crackling or rustling sounds.
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1807 R. Alsop in R. Alsop et al. Echo 3 Embattled elements increas'd the roar—Red crinkling fires expended all their force.
1865 D. M. Mulock Christian's Mistake 69 As she stepped with her light, firm tread across the crinkling snow.
a1909 E. M. Barton Straws on Stream (1910) 91 Thy tread is on the crinkling hay.
2003 L. Cohen Crooked Smile xvii. 139 We work outdoors, forming piles of rusted, crinkling leaves.
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