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PRONUNCIATION OF CRINKLY

crinkly  [ˈkrɪŋklɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRINKLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crinkly can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CRINKLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

crinkly

Crinkle-cutting

Crinkle-cutting means cutting so the result is corrugated. One can do this with specialized knives or mandoline. It is frequently used for potato chips, and is also referred to as ruffled, by analogy with the ruffle, a strip of fabric often gathered, creating regular folds. It is also commonly used for french fries or sweet potato fries. Thin fries are often referred to as waffle cut fries while the long version with wavy sides are often referred to as wavy fries.

Definition of crinkly in the English dictionary

The definition of crinkly in the dictionary is wrinkled; crinkled. Other definition of crinkly is an old person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRINKLY


blankly
ˈblæŋklɪ
crankly
ˈkræŋklɪ
dankly
ˈdæŋklɪ
dinkly
ˈdɪŋklɪ
frankly
ˈfræŋklɪ
Hinckley
ˈhɪŋklɪ
lankly
ˈlæŋklɪ
pinkly
ˈpɪŋklɪ
rankly
ˈræŋklɪ
Shankly
ˈʃæŋklɪ
tinkly
ˈtɪŋklɪ
twinkly
ˈtwɪŋklɪ
wrinkly
ˈrɪŋklɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRINKLY

cringing
cringingly
cringle
crinicultural
crinigerous
crinite
crinkle
crinkle-cut
crinkled
crinkleroot
crinklies
crinkum-crankum
crinoid
crinoidal
crinoidean
crinolette
crinoline
crinose
crinum
crinum lily

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRINKLY

biweekly
blackly
bleakly
briskly
crackly
darkly
freckly
meekly
news weekly
prickly
quickly
sickly
sleekly
sparkly
starkly
thickly
tickly
weakly
weekly
wkly

Synonyms and antonyms of crinkly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CRINKLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «crinkly» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of crinkly

Translation of «crinkly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRINKLY

Find out the translation of crinkly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of crinkly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crinkly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

皱巴巴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

crinkly
570 millions of speakers

English

crinkly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

crinkly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مجعدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

морщинистый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enrugado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুঞ্চিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crépus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keriting
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zerknittert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

縮れた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주름진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Crinkly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhàu nát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

crinkly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खडबडीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kıvrımlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crinkly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

crinkly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зморшкуватий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crinkly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατσαρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kroes
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

crinkly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

crinkly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crinkly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRINKLY»

The term «crinkly» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.028 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRINKLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «crinkly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «crinkly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about crinkly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRINKLY»

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1
The Citrus Industry, Volume IV:
trees, some fruits were described as small, coarse, and bumpy, Inoculations from crinkly-leaf-infected lemon trees to sweet orange caused psorosis veinal flecking of young leaves, but crinkling of mature leaves was somewhat less than for ...
Walter Reuther, 1978
2
Maisy's Twinkly Crinkly Fun Book
Maisy invites her many fans to help her explore her world through touch-and-feel elements and count up to five.
‎2004
3
Crinkly Paper Sky and the Candycane Surrealists
C-R-I-N-K-L-Y S+K+Y &the C,A,N,D,Y,C,A,N,E suRreALisTs C-R-I-N-K-L-Y PAPER SKY AND THE CANDYCANE SURREALISTS MICHAEL FRAUENHOFER.
4
Medicinal Reading: Of genius, pure chance and dedicated hard ...
When smooth pea plants, with a crinkly past, were crossed with other crinkly parented smooth pea plants, a few of the offspring produced crinkly peas. This meant that the tendency to crinkle had been passed on, but had lay dormant for a  ...
Tord Ajanki, 1995
5
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Coal, not exposed . Interval Sandstone Shale, sandy Shale Thickness. Feet. 10 30 10 16 .=> 20 □-'0 No. on map. 669 Thickness. Feet. Coal has been mined, not exposed Shale, sandy Sandstone, crinkly bedded . . . Sandstone, more massive ...
6
Mother Wit from Laughing Barrel
As. Crinkly. as. Yours. ELDRIDGE. CLEAVER. Here is an eloquent statement of some of the negative aspects of folklore. Not all folklore is indicted. Only those portions which reflect racism, e.g., the traditional symbolic associations of the colors ...
Alan Dundes, 1973
7
The Synagogue
... medallion North and red black white yellow It. green It. green red gray-white It. green yellow It. green It. green red black South Walls plain stippled diagonal crinkly crinkly stippled plain plain stippled crinkly crinkly diagonal plain stippled dark ...
Carl Hermann Kraeling, 1956
8
Gold quartz veins of the Alleghany district, California
..<'j1V>-'-!-:""V»^'with frozen wal Is Quartz Ribbon quartz th i — i — l — l — i — i n structure Figdbk 19. — Sketches showing relation of crinkly banding to ribbon quartz: a, Two series of ribbons, the later set following a shear which truncates the ...
Henry Gardiner Ferguson, Roger W. Gannett, 1932
9
Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables: Diagnosis and Management
Fawcett (1936) illustrated a transmissible disease which they called 'crinkly leaf. Later, Fawcett and Klotz (1939) transmitted a disease from infected lemon to sour orange and named it Infectious variegation and suggested it was caused by a ...
Naqvi, S.A.M.H. Naqvi, 2004
10
First regional workshop on tropical fruit crops
Citremons (1148-1449) Citrange stunt, ringspot greening, ringspot, Tristeza (C), woody gall, Citron Greening, infectious variegation-crinkly leaf, leaf Phytophthora curl, Psorosis leaf symptoms, Tristeza Rough Lemon Cristacortis, greening, ...
Ministry of Agriculture Commonwealth of Dominica, ADCU, CARDI

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRINKLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term crinkly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Seeing the South Island sights by motorbike
The ride in twisted around Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea, glistening under a cloudless sky, and surrounded by the grey, crinkly mountains that ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
2
Prayers still needed as young Mattituck man hit by taxi heads into …
He's got crinkly eyes when he smiles and a huge grin. Everyone loves him. Even when he wouldn't follow directions in school, the teachers ... «SoutholdLOCAL, Jul 15»
3
Beware Matt Damons Middle-Aged Ponytail
Grey hair can be too coarse and crinkly. You need to keep the ponytail moisturized too.” It sounds like a time-consuming minefield, and best ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
4
Ask the expert: anti-ageing
Dehydrated skin also loses its elasticity and suppleness, so lines and wrinkles look accentuated and the skin is more crinkly in appearance," he ... «TV3.ie, Jul 15»
5
Family of young Mattituck man hit by taxi expresses deep gratitude …
He's got crinkly eyes when he smiles and a huge grin. Everyone loves him. Even when he wouldn't follow directions in school, the teachers ... «SoutholdLOCAL, Jul 15»
6
Greek stuffed cabbage leaves: Owen Pidgeon's twist on classic recipe
Savoys are the wonderful large, crinkly-leaf cabbages. They are among the late-maturing varieties and can stand light frosts. They are excellent ... «Good Food, Jul 15»
7
'Sawyer Sessions' make Hillsborough a star
... a couple of automobile air-fresheners that appeared to date back to the Nixon administration, the plastic wrappers dried-out and crinkly. «News & Observer, Jul 15»
8
Kavinoky Theatre's Demerly departs, leaving Buffalo's theater …
“If you have candies or lozenges with those crinkly wrappers,” Demerly always says with a smirk, “please unwrap them now or eat them with the ... «Buffalo.com, Jul 15»
9
For your Fourth, fireworks on your plate
That was the night I found a little crinkly red thing, about the size of a pinkie finger, in my Szechwan Eggplant, and said, that looks good! «Lewiston Sun Journal, Jul 15»
10
Live: Pursuing immortality with The Rolling Stones
... rock 'n' roll provided by biological freaks, a Ripley's installation of three septuagenarians and a sexagenarian, all clad in crinkly reptilian skin, ... «The Independent Weekly, Jul 15»

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