Meanings
verbprinkle (third-person singular simple present prinkles, present participle prinkling, simple past and past participle prinkled)
present singular third person prinkles · participle present prinkling · participle past prinkled · past prinkled
- alternativeAlternative form of pringle (“to prickle or tingle”).
He was stiff from head to foot, his bones ached, and his skin prinkled, this being the ordinary way that frost affects one in the tropics.
1912, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Marriage of Captain Kettle, page 287
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with prinkle
wrinklesprinkletwinklewinklecrinkletinkleatinkleatwinkleblinklechinkledrinkleholy-water sprinkleinklekinklestrinkletincal
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APA
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Chicago
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