WRINKLE

wrinkle

(noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

wrinkle

(noun) a minor difficulty; “they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out”

wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line

(noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface; “his face has many lines”; “ironing gets rid of most wrinkles”

furrow, wrinkle, crease

(verb) make wrinkled or creased; “furrow one’s brow”

wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp

(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic; “The dress got wrinkled”; “crease the paper like this to make a crane”

purse, wrinkle

(verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; “purse ones’s lips”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

wrinkle (plural wrinkles)

A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.

A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.

A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.

A twist on something existing; a novel difference.

Verb

wrinkle (third-person singular simple present wrinkles, present participle wrinkling, simple past and past participle wrinkled)

(transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.

(intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.

(intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.

(intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).

Etymology 2

Noun

wrinkle (plural wrinkles)

(US, dialect) A winkle

Anagrams

• Winkler

Proper noun

Wrinkle (plural Wrinkles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wrinkle is the 25659^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 961 individuals. Wrinkle is most common among White (96.57%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Winkler

Source: Wiktionary

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Wrin"kle, n.

Definition: A winkle. [Local, U.S.]

Wrin"kle, n. Etym: [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga.

1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows." Shak. Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson.

2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden.

3. Etym: [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n.]

Definition: A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]

Wrin"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.]

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope.

2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. Milton. Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. Bryant. To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] Marston.

Wrin"kle, v. i.

Definition: To shrink into furrows and ridges.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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