† ˈwrimpled, a. Obs.
Also 5 wrymplyd.
[f. MDu. or MLG. *wrimpelen (older Flem. wrempelen ‘to drawe the mouth awry’, Hexham), frequentative of MLG. wrempen, wrimpen to wrinkle, bend, turn. Cf. the earlier rimpled a.]
Wrinkled, rimpled, or puckered; creased.
| c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 203, I can not armys blase, Nor to the fulle rynge hire belle, That is so wrymplyd as a mase. 1553 Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 37 Neyther haue they theyr bellies wrimpeled or loose. 1577 Whetstone Gascoigne B j, I holde a forme, within a wrimpled skin. 1592 R. D[allington] Hypnerotomachia 28 b, A Dragon['s]..wrimpled backe. 1611 Cotgr., Renfrongué,..wrimpled, crumpled, puckered. 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. i. xlvii, Wafts of winds centrall That ruffle..Psyche's wrimpled veil. 1657 Reeve God's Plea 23 The wrimpled skin..of that old man. 1672 tr. Hurtado's Lazarillo ii. O 4, Seeing me so bleak, and wrimpled, like an old Wives belly. |