Rusty vs Crinkly - What's the difference?
rusty | crinkly |
Affected by rust.
Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Having red or reddish-brown hair.
Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
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, title= Discolored and rancid; reasty.
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That crinkles.
Having crinkles; wrinkly.
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As adjectives the difference between rusty and crinkly
is that rusty is affected by rust while crinkly is that crinkles.rusty
English
Adjective
(er)Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton, passage=Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.}}
Derived terms
* rusty nailAnagrams
*crinkly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)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.}}