Wrinkle
Wrinkle , noun
A winkle. [Local, United States]
Wrinkle , noun
[Old English wrinkil, Anglo-Saxon wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Danish rynke, Swedish rynka, Icelandic hrukka, Old High German runza, German runzel, Latin ruga. {not transcribed}.]
1.
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.
The wrinkles in my brows.
Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
2.
hence, any roughness; unevenness.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.
3.
A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloquial]
Wrinkle , transitive verb
1.
To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
Sport that wrinkled Care derides.
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
2.
Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.
Collocations (1)
To wrinkle at , to sneer at. [Obsolete] — Marston
Wrinkle , intransitive verb
To shrink into furrows and ridges.