Crinkly. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. [f. CRINKLE sb. + -Y.] Full of crinkles.

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1866.  Lowell, Biglow P., Poems 1890, II. 212. His veins ’ould run All crinkly like curled maple.

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1882.  Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, II. viii. 159. The hawthorn hedges were unfolding crinkly green leaves among the brown.

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  So Crinkly-crankly.

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1891.  Atkinson, Last of Giant Killers, 8. In the rough, crumpled, crinkly-crankly part.

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