Wrinkle
['rɪŋk(ə)l] or ['rɪŋkl]
Definition
(noun.) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different).
(noun.) a minor difficulty; 'they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out'.
(noun.) a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; 'his face has many lines'; 'ironing gets rid of most wrinkles'.
(verb.) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'The dress got wrinkled'; 'crease the paper like this to make a crane'.
Edited by Elsie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A winkle.
(n.) 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.
(n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.
(n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
(v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
(v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
(v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Checked by Ives
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Furrow, crease, fold, plait, gather, pucker, rumple, corrugation, rimple.[2]. [Colloquial.] Notion, whim, fancy, whimsey, caprice, crotchet, vagary, freak, quirk, maggot.
v. a. Corrugato, crease, rumple, cockle, pucker, crumple.
Inputed by Alphonso
Definition
n. (coll.) a tip valuable hint.
n. a small ridge on a surface caused by twisting or shrinking: unevenness.—v.t. to contract into wrinkles or furrows: to make rough.—v.i. to shrink into ridges.—adj. Wrink′ly full of wrinkles: liable to be wrinkled.
Typist: Lottie
Unserious Contents or Definition
A merchant's trade-marks.
Typist: Ralph
Examples
- That's a pity, now, Josh, said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His marks and wrinkles were innumerable. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Peniston was a small plump woman, with a colourless skin lined with trivial wrinkles. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Stretch them on a bosom-board, and with a damp cloth rub out all the wrinkles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Did you notice any wrinkles over my nose this evening, Pa? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A long silence ensued; during which the Jew was plunged in deep thought, with his face wrinkled into an expression of villainy perfectly demoniacal. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Her fingers were white and wrinkled with washing, and the soap-suds were yet smoking which she wiped off her arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you, he said to the wrinkled reveller. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- For a minute he was a little stiff, and stood wrinkling his copper-coloured forehead strangely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Loerke laughed, wrinkling up his face oddly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Rudolf