kinkly

comparative more kinkly · superlative most kinkly

1. obsoleteLiable to kink or curl; kinky.

   Hair has different form, texture, weight and shape in cross section, like, straight, wavy, curly, kinkly and woolly or peppercorn.

   1980, Journal of Tamil Studies

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   and were addicted to short kinkly curls, exaggerated, in the case of villains of more than ordinary atrocity, into a stream of raven locks[…]

   1873, “Reminiscences of the Royal Pasteboard Theatre”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal

   When I knew him he was forty years of age, a thin, spare creature, with a bush of kinkly hair, negro lips, and a long face like that of a horse.

   1895, Vance Thompson, “Two Nigger Poets of Paris”, in M'lle New York, volume 1