runkle

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noun

A wrinkle or crease.

OriginMiddle English runkel ← Old Norse *hrunka ← Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ →
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Meanings

runkle1

nounrunkle (plural runkles)

plural runkles

  1. A wrinkle or crease.
verbrunkle (third-person singular simple present runkles, present participle runkling, simple past and past participle runkled)

present singular third person runkles · participle present runkling · participle past runkled · past runkled

  1. ambitransitiveTo wrinkle or crease.

Runkle2

proper nounRunkle (plural Runkles)

plural Runkles

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishrunklen“to wrinkle”
  2. Proto-Germanic*hrunkwǭ“wrinkle”
  3. Old Norse*hrunka
  4. Middle Englishrunkel“wrinkle, crease”
  5. Englishrunkle

From Middle English runkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Cognate with Scots runkil (“wrinkle, crease”). Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a diminutive ( + -le) of Old Norse *hrunka, hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle”). The verb is from Middle English runklen (“to wrinkle”), from the noun. Compare also Old Swedish rynkia (whence Swedish rynka (“to wrinkle”)).

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APA

runkle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/runkle

MLA

“runkle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/runkle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “runkle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/runkle.

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