| 单词 |
crinchling |
| 释义 |
▪ I. crinkling, vbl. n.|ˈkrɪŋklɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
I. The action of the verb crinkle; twisting to and fro; wrinkling, crumpling, etc. Also concr.
1577Harrison Desc. Britaine i. xiv. in Holinshed, The Wyuer..no riuer in England..fetcheth more or halfe so many windlesses and crinklings. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. iv. (Arb.) 46 The curious crinkling of a silke stocking. 1709W. King Art of Cookery 138 Who cares for all the crinkling of the pye? 1891Daily News 20 May 3/1 Much of the crêpon is crinkled like the surface of cream..Sometimes this crinkling runs in stripes.
II. The emitting of sharp thin sounds.
18807th Rep. Topog. Surv. Adirondack Region 157 The sharp ‘crinkling’ of the runners of the large hand-sleds.
▪ II. ˈcrinkling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
I. That crinkles; see crinkle v. I.
1577Harrison Desc. Brit. i. xv, Manifold Water, so called bicause of the sundrie crinckling rills that it receiueth. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. iv. ii. 227 Running with a crinkeling course as far as Lions. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche ix. xxx. (R.), Her legs are two faint crinkling props.
II. Emitting sharp thin sounds.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh v. Poems VI. 191 All the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. 1865Miss Mulock Christian's Mistake 69 As she stepped with her light, firm tread across the crinkling snow. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust iii. viii. 168 With the crinkling sand the floor to strow.
▪ III. ˈcrinkling, crinchling, n. dial.
[f. crinch v., or crink v. + -ling.]
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Crinchling, a small apple. 1881Suppl. Oxfordsh. Gloss., Crinklin', a small wrinkled apple. |
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