crinkly

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1. That crinkles.

   Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.

   1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon

2. Having crinkles; wrinkly.

   Himself, he was a little as if made from leather, with his yellow crinkly face, and crinkly reddish hair and beard; and neat folds slanting down his cheeks to the corners of his mouth, and his guttural and one-toned voice;[…]

   1912, John Galsworthy, Quality

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   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.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms: bewrinkled

plural crinklies

1. derogatoryAn old person.

   Synonyms: antique, coffin dodger, wrinkly