WRINKLE, WRINKLED
ADJECTIVES
► ALL IN A QUOBBLE of a woman’s hands: shrivelled and wrinkled from being too long in the washtub → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAPERATED wrinkled like a goat’s horn → 1657 obs.
► CRANKED crinkled, wrinkled → 1699 obs.
► CRINKLETY wrinkled, creased → 1906 Amer. dial.
► CRIPPLETY-CRUMPLETY crumpled, wrinkled, creased → 1908 Amer. dial.
► CRISP having a surface curled into minute waves, ripples, folds, or wrinkles → 1398
► CROOTSED UP wrinkled, crushed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► FURROW-FACED having wrinkles on the face or forehead → 1607
► FURROW-FRONTED having wrinkles on the face or forehead → 1640
► MOSSY-HEADED old, wrinkled → 1967 Amer. dial.
► MOSSYHORN old, wrinkled → 1885 Amer. dial.
► PURSY of the skin, cloth, etc.: puckered, wrinkled → 1552
► REEVED UP crinkled, wrinkled → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ROCKLED wrinkled → 19C Eng. dial.
► RUNKLE wrinkled → 1440 obs.
► SCORY wrinkled, lined → 1846 Eng. dial.
► SCRANKY ► SKRANKY lean, lank, thin, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → 1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRANNY thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRANNY-LOOKING thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SHRINKLED shrunk, wrinkled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SHROCKLED shrunk; shrivelled, withered; wrinkled, puckered → 1790 Eng. dial.
► WIZZLED wrinkled, wizened → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► WRINKLED AS A PRUNE very wrinkled → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► WRINKLEDY wrinkled → 1900 Amer. dial.
► WRIZZLED marked with creases, wrinkles, or corrugations; wrinkled, shrivelled → 1590 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WROCKLED wrinkled → 19C Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BEGGAR’S-PLAITS wrinkles or creases in garments as if slept in → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUMFLE a wrinkle, pucker, or unattractive bulge in a piece of clothing, etc. → 1867 Sc. & N. Ireland
► CATFACE ► CAT’S FACE a wrinkle or pucker left on a garment when ironed improperly → 1952 Amer. dial., chiefly African-American
► CRIMPLE a crease, wrinkle, or fold; a crinkle → c1440 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► CRINGLE a twist, a bend; a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something → 1808 Eng. dial. obs.
► CRINKLE a twist, a bend; a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something → 1596
► FROUNCE a wrinkle → 1390 obs.
► FRUMPLE a wrinkle → 1440 obs.
► FURROW a deep wrinkle on the face → 1589
► GALL a crease or wrinkle in cloth → 1787 Sc.
► MILEAGE wrinkles → 1960s Amer. sl.
► REEVE a wrinkle → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RUELLE a wrinkle → 19C Eng. dial.
► RUNKLE a wrinkle; a rumple; a crease → 1400 now chiefly Sc. & Irish usage
► WRIMPLE a crease or fold; a wrinkle → 1499 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CAG any old wrinkled female, as an old woman, cow, ewe, etc. → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FURROW-FACE a person who has a wrinkled face → 1621 obs.
► RUNKLE a wrinkled, shrivelled or gnarled person → 1934 Sc.
► SCRANNY an ill-natured, wrinkled old woman → 1824 Sc.
PHRASES
► HIS HEAD LOOKS AS IF IT HAS WORN OUT TWO BODIES said of someone old and wrinkled → 1937 Amer. dial.
VERBS
► CAPERATE to wrinkle → 1657 obs.
► CORRUGE to frown, to wrinkle → 1623 obs.
► CRANK to wrinkle minutely with parallel ridges and furrows, to crinkle → 1660 obs.
► CRIMPLE to wrinkle, crumple, crinkle, curl → c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CRINK to bend, to twist; to form into wrinkles or furrows; to crinkle → 1821
► CRINKLE to make twisting, winding, or crumpled; to wrinkle; to crimp the hair → 1430
► CRUNKLE to wrinkle, to rumple, to crinkle → 1400 chiefly Eng. dial.
► FROUNCE to gather in folds or wrinkles, to wrinkle; to purse the lips or brows → 1390 obs.
► FRUMPLE to wrinkle, to crumple → 1398 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FURL to make undulations on a surface; to furrow, to wrinkle → 1689 obs.
► FURROW to make wrinkles in → 1597
► GATHER to form folds or wrinkles → 1816
► MOMBLE to jumble together; to ravel, to tangle; to wrinkle, to crumple; to crumble; to mess; to bungle; to do anything in a clumsy way → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PURSE to become wrinkled, to pucker → 1597
► REEVE to draw into wrinkles; to pucker; to twist round; to shrivel up; to roll up the sleeves → 1821 Eng. dial.
► RIBBLE to wrinkle → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RUNKLE to wrinkle; to rumple; to crumple; to crush → 1425
► SCRINK to wrinkle, to screw up; to peer with screwed-up, half-closed eyes → 1897 Eng. dial.
► SCRUPLE to rumple; to twist up; to wrinkle → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SKRINK to wrinkle, to screw up; to peer with screwed-up, half-closed eyes → 1897 Eng. dial.
► TAW to twist; to get crooked or out of shape; to crease, to wrinkle; to entwist, as the end of a rope → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WIZZLE to shrivel or dry up, to become wrinkled; to pucker → 1834 Amer. dial.
► WRIMPLE to wrinkle, to crumple → 1611 obs.