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

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. 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

  1. (derogatory)An old person.

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Etymology

From crinkle + -y.

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