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runkle

runkle noun: a wrinkle or crease.

Noun

runkle (plural runkles)

  1. A wrinkle or crease.

Verb

runkle (third-person singular simple present runkles, present participle runkling, simple past and past participle runkled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To wrinkle or crease.

Proper noun capitalized: Runkle

Runkle (plural Runkles)

  1. A surname.

Forms of runkle

Noun
pluralrunkles
Verb
third-person singular presentrunkles
present participlerunkling
past participlerunkled
pastrunkled
Proper noun
pluralRunkles

Origin of runkle

From Middle English runkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Cognate with Scots runkil (“wrinkle, crease”). Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a diminutive ( + -le) of Old Norse *hrunka, hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle”). The verb is from Middle English runklen (“to wrinkle”), from the noun. Compare also Old Swedish rynkia (whence Swedish rynka (“to wrinkle”)).

Questions about runkle

What does runkle mean?
Runkle means a wrinkle or crease.
What part of speech is runkle?
Runkle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of runkle?
The plural of runkle is runkles.

Words near runkle in the dictionary

  1. Runions
  2. runish
  3. Runk
  4. Runkel
  5. Runkels
  6. runkle
  7. runkled
  8. runkles
  9. runkling
  10. Runks
  11. runlength

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Adapted from Wiktionary: runkle (page history and authors); Runkle (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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