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kninkles

/ˈnɪŋk.l̩z/

kninkles noun: knee wrinkles.

Noun

kninkles pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Knee wrinkles.
    • My sister called me last night and declared she has "kninkles" (knee wrinkles)...oh the things that happen to your body as you get older...2011 April 21, @bobfm, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024
    • Photos of her in Venice in a pair of shorts at the weekend appeared to show that the Hollywood actress — 39 this month — is suffering from knee wrinkles, or ‘kninkles’, as they’ve been nicknamed.2011 September 6, Claire Coleman, “Curse of the KNINKLES: That's knee wrinkles... and Gwyneth's not the only star who's got them”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024

Examples of kninkles in a sentence

  • Radio-frequency treatments are often used on the face to tighten slack skin and can work wonders on kninkles.2011 September 7, Claire Coleman, “Ugly knees: The curse of the kninkles”, in The Courier-Mail, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
  • Even super-fit stars such a Demi Moore, 51, right, and Catherine Zeta Jones, 44, left, can't avoid kninkles2014 February 25, Katy Winter, “No more kninkles (that's knee wrinkles): Now there's a $500 lunchtime lift that promises to banish that...
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cher and Sharon Stone have been called out for “kninkles,” or knee wrinkles — and Demi Moore is rumored to have had an $8,000 knee-lift in 2012 to firm and smooth saggy knees.2015 July 27, Merle Ginsberg, “Hollywood’s Knee Anxiety: Ironing Out Those “Kninkles””, in The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the...

Origin of kninkles

Blend of knee + wrinkles. Itself a modification of ninkles, which was coined by Emily Sheffield. Kninkles appeared shortly after ninkles, but only kninkles became generally accepted.

Questions about kninkles

What does kninkles mean?
Kninkles means knee wrinkles.
How do you use kninkles in a sentence?
Radio-frequency treatments are often used on the face to tighten slack skin and can work wonders on kninkles.
What part of speech is kninkles?
Kninkles is a noun.
How do you pronounce kninkles?
Kninkles is pronounced /ˈnɪŋk.l̩z/.

Words near kninkles in the dictionary

  1. Knightswood
  2. Knightwick
  3. knightwise
  4. Knik
  5. Knin
  6. kninkles
  7. knip
  8. Knipe
  9. Knipes
  10. kniphofia
  11. kniphofias

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