crinkly
English
Etymology
crinkle + -y
Adjective
crinkly (comparative crinklier or more crinkly, superlative crinkliest or most crinkly)
- That crinkles.
- Having crinkles; wrinkly.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
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Noun
crinkly (plural crinklies)
- (derogatory) old person