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Definition of Crunkle
1. to crumple [v CRUNKLED, CRUNKLING, CRUNKLES] - See also: crumple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crunkle
Literary usage of Crunkle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"crunkle, va To tumble or rumple linen, &c., so as to cause it to form creases.
' The interchange of mp and nk is so frequent that we can hardly separate ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To crunkle, va 1. To crease ; to rumple, 8. Tennant't Card. Beaton. 2. To shrivel ;
to contract, ... crunkle, f. A crease ; a wrinkle, S. CRUNT, t. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Crinkle, crunkle. To wrinkle, twist, plait, or rumple irregularly. Crish, Crush.
Cartilage, or soft bones of young animals, easily crushed by the teeth. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... at it a» if you were gaim to shoot it wi' a gun, that has made my verra
heart-strings crunkle up wi' the ..."
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