crinkly, a.
(ˈkrɪŋklɪ)
[f. crinkle n. + -y.]
a. Full of crinkles.
| 1866 Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 212 His veins 'ould run All crinkly like curled maple. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. viii. 159 Unfolding crinkly green leaves. |
b. Characterized by a succession of crinkling sounds.
| 1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambr. in Wks. (1855) I. 330 Does my voice come from my heart in a crinkly cough, as if the lungs were rotten? 1911 Hugh Walpole Mr. Perrin iii, The white, crinkly sound of the silk of her dress against the table. |
So crinkly-crankly.
| 1891 Atkinson Last of Giant-Killers 8 In the rough, crumpled, crinkly-crankly part. |