Crinkle vs Drinkle - What's the difference?
crinkle | drinkle |
(ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
* L. T. Trowbridge
* Elizabeth Browning
A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
To cause to drink; drench; drown; drink; get drunk.
*1921 , George Henry Borrow, Lavengro, the scholar, the Gypsy, the priest :
*1965 , John Treadwell Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo :
*2009 , Claire Kilroy, All names have been changed :
To drown.
In lang=en terms the difference between crinkle and drinkle
is that crinkle is to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved while drinkle is to drown.As verbs the difference between crinkle and drinkle
is that crinkle is (ambitransitive) to fold, crease, crumple, or wad while drinkle is to cause to drink; drench; drown; drink; get drunk.As a noun crinkle
is a wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.crinkle
English
Verb
(crinkl)- He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
- The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
- The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
- All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
Noun
(en noun)- He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.
Anagrams
*drinkle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(drinkl)- And the Mercury states that "the heavy rain drenched the field, and most betook themselves to a retreat, but the rats were all drinkled ".
- We built a fire in the huge fireplace, then sat around drinkling bootleg beer and whiskey, compliments of Joe himself, Valley High's greatest athlete.
- 'Get this one into bed and it's a royal flush!' His face twinkled, his gums sparkled, his eyes kindled, his brow darkened. I bridled and bristled, nettled and rankled, then drinkled and drankled some more.