单词 | rimpled |
释义 | rimpledadj. Chiefly North American in later use. Wrinkled, crumpled, puckered; (also) wavy undulating.In quot. a15001: (perhaps) dishevelled; unkempt (cf. rumpled adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased rivelledlOE hirpleda1400 runkleda1400 rimpleda1425 wrimpledc1430 crimpled1440 frumpledc1440 runkle?1440 ruscledc1440 crumple1523 wrinkled?1523 creased1545 pursy1552 shrivelled1565 wrinkly1573 crumpled1577 ruffed1578 scrimpledc1590 wrizzled1590 wimpled1599 rucked1600 puckered1606 cappard1608 wrinkleful1608 plighty1615 yfrouncta1643 puggered1653 caperated1657 wreathed1657 pursed1676 crinkly1750 runkly1772 wrinkling1791 ruckya1825 puckery1830 creasy1858 seamy1874 crinkle1886 kinkled1890 bumfled1943 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4495 A Rympled vekke ferre Ronne in age. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 13336 (MED) I am ryht foul for to beholde; My chekys Rympled and ryht Olde. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 90 A man that semed right olde and rympled [Fr. febles]. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxiii. 424 (MED) Merlin..was blakke and rough for rympled and longe berde. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xv. 18 A bath of sweete water is good for him, if the body be drye and rimpled. 1606 E. Forset Compar. Disc. Bodies Nat. & Politique 37 Minerua..did transforme him into diuers shapes, sometimes putting vpon him the shew of a rimpled and withered age. 1681 E. Tyson tr. J. Swammerdam Ephemeri Vita sig. Hv The straight gut, which appeareth very neatly rimpled. 1751 T. Dicey Hist. Acct. Guernsey 125 A dry Nurse, who was found dead, having my Lord's second Daughter fast in her Arms, holding a small Silver Cup in her Hands which she usually played with, which was all rimpled and bruised. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 39 The skin [was]..rimpled in two or three places, but not broken. 1829 Burtt in J. Paterson Contemp. of Burns (1844) 175 We'll..smile at the moon's rimpled face in the wave. 1885 Cent. Mag. Mar. 681/2 A heavy rimpled mass of lemon-colored hair. 1915 R. K. Wood Tourist's Maritime Provinces viii. 223 The Gaelic village is only a stratum of plain wooden houses laid between hill and rimpled bay. 1921 A. Stringer Twin Tales viii. 285 He saw a stretch of rimpled canvas belly up with the heat of the flames beneath it. 1985 K. S. Robinson Wild Shore (new ed.) xv. 235 I..trundled slowly across the rimpled sand to the cleaning tables. 2002 W. Gay Hate to see Evening Sun go Down (2003) 53 Under the starlight the rimpled surface of the river looked hammered and it glittered with a thousand points of light. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1425 |
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