crinkly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
Definition of crinkly
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
-
That crinkles.
“Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.”
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adj
-
That crinkles.
“Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.”
-
Having crinkles; wrinkly.
“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;[…]”
“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.”
noun
- (derogatory)An old person.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From crinkle + -y.
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