Wrinkle /(?)/

Wrin·kle

Wrinkle

n.
  1. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]

Wrinkle

n.
  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.
    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. [Colloq.]

Wrinkle

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling

  1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
    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.

Phrases & Compounds

To wrinkle at
to sneer at.

Wrinkle

v. i.
  1. To shrink into furrows and ridges.