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cringle-crangle

cringle-crangle is the alternative form of crinkle-crankle.

Meaning of crinkle-crankle

Adjective

crinkle-crankle (not comparable)

  1. Of a garden wall: built in a repeating series of curves.

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Questions about cringle-crangle

What is cringle-crangle the alternative form of?
Cringle-crangle is the alternative form of crinkle-crankle.

Words near cringle-crangle in the dictionary

  1. cringing
  2. cringingly
  3. cringingness
  4. cringings
  5. cringle
  6. cringle-crangle
  7. cringled
  8. Cringleford
  9. cringles
  10. cringling
  11. cringometer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cringle-crangle (page history and authors); crinkle-crankle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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