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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : ring-klee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɪŋ kli |
Definition of wrinkly
Origin :- 1580s, from wrinkle + -y (2). As teen slang noun for "old person," from 1972 (a British reference from 1982 applies it to people in their 40s).
- As in rough : adj uneven, irregular
- Mr. Benjamin has a wrinkly smile, and Mrs. Benjamin is so understanding.
- Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
- You've got a beard, and your forehead is all criss-cross and wrinkly, and your chin rough.
- Extract from : « A Round Dozen » by Susan Coolidge
- And they had such romantic, crinkly, wrinkly, leathery faces.
- Extract from : « The River and I » by John G. Neihardt
- The stiff, wrinkly oil-painting must be hard and cold to cry into.
- Extract from : « Tales of Two Countries » by Alexander Kielland
- He thrust out his long arm and snatched his wrinkly vest from a chair.
- Extract from : « Main Street » by Sinclair Lewis
- She says things under her breath when she thinks nobody will hear, and she makes up my bed so it is all wrinkly.
- Extract from : « By the Light of the Soul » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Something wiggily, and black and yellow and red-spotted with wrinkly legs and a long snaky neck and head.
- Extract from : « Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble » by Howard R. Garis
- His coat was smooth and glossy, not rough and wrinkly like Old Rattlers, and his upraised head was small and pretty—for a snake.
- Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1900 » by Various
- "I should think it would be a great bother to cut the wool from a Merino when he is so wrinkly," suggested Donald thoughtfully.
- Extract from : « The Story of Wool » by Sara Ware Bassett
- Home, and children that need you, and depend on you to keep them alive, and turn to you with their wrinkly little smiles.
- Extract from : « Main Street » by Sinclair Lewis
Synonyms for wrinkly
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
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