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Crinkle vs Crinkly - What's the difference?

crinkle | crinkly |

As a verb crinkle

is (ambitransitive) to fold, crease, crumple, or wad.

As a noun crinkle

is a wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.

As an adjective crinkly is

that crinkles.

crinkle

English

Verb

(crinkl)
  • (ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
    • He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
    The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
  • To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  • * L. T. Trowbridge
    • The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
    • He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.

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    crinkly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • That crinkles.
  • Having crinkles; wrinkly.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.}}