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wrinklings

wrinklings is the plural of wrinkling.

Meaning of wrinkling

Noun

wrinkling (plural wrinklings)

  1. A pattern of wrinkles.
    • The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression[…]1849, Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, volume 3, page 251
  2. The act of wrinkling.
    • Would she be able to appreciate the subtlety of their advances, if they made any; those little twitches and twists of the lips, those narrowings and rollings of the eye, those wrinklings of the speculative temple, that shrugging of an eyebrow at play?1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 33, in Gormenghast (The Gormenghast Trilogy; II), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published October 1968, →OCLC, page 236

Questions about wrinklings

What is wrinklings the plural of?
Wrinklings is the plural of wrinkling.

Words near wrinklings in the dictionary

  1. wrinklier
  2. wrinklies
  3. wrinkliest
  4. wrinkliness
  5. wrinkling
  6. wrinklings
  7. wrinkly
  8. wrinkly skin syndrome
  9. Wriothesley
  10. Wrisberg's cartilage
  11. Wrisberg's nerve

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