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crinklesome

crinklesome adjective: characterised or marked by crinkles or crinkling.

Adjective

crinklesome (comparative more crinklesome, superlative most crinklesome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by crinkles or crinkling.
    • While sounds that would make a deaf man stare
      Rose and fell on the crinklesome air.1891, Little Folks: A Magazine for the Young - Issue 193, page 221
    • Where slim alders glisten, a-lean as to listen,
      And cresses their crinklesome tresses unroll […]1912, Hilton Ross Greer, A Prairie Prayer, and Other Poems, page 6

Forms of crinklesome

comparativemore crinklesome
superlativemost crinklesome

Origin of crinklesome

From crinkle + -some.

Questions about crinklesome

What does crinklesome mean?
Crinklesome means characterised or marked by crinkles or crinkling.
What part of speech is crinklesome?
Crinklesome is an adjective.

Words near crinklesome in the dictionary

  1. crinkler
  2. crinkleroot
  3. crinkleroots
  4. crinklers
  5. crinkles
  6. crinklesome
  7. crinklier
  8. crinklies
  9. crinkliest
  10. crinkliness
  11. crinkling

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