▪ I. † ˈscrumple, n. Obs. rare—1.
[var. form of crumple; see scr- 2.]
A wrinkle, crease.
| 1508 Dunbar Flyting 122 Fy! skolderit skyn, thow art bot skyre and skrumple. |
▪ II. ˈscrumple, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To crush, fold, wrinkle. Also freq. with up.
| c 1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 188 Ane chartour, sasine, or uther evident, being be chance brint, singit be the fire, scrumpillit, or the seil thairof meltit and brokin. 1894 Moss Cheadle 172 Her rough hair was scrumpled into a chenille net. 1939 A. Ransome Secret Water xxii. 261 She jumped up, grabbed the message, scrumpled it up and poked it into the stove. 1954 M. Procter Hell is a City i. ii. 23 It [sc. money in notes] came out of my bag all scrumpled up anyhow, just as I'd stuffed it in. 1961 R. M. Dashwood Provincial Daughter 83, I discover shirt scrumpled up in polythene bag at bottom of wardrobe. 1971 G. Ewart Gavin Ewart Show i. 25 His secretary has a habit of scrumpling the top copies. |
Hence ˈscrumpled ppl. a.
| 1813 E. Weeton Jrnl. Dec. (1969) II. 115 She thrust something into my hand... It felt like a small parcel of scrumpled paper. 1902 Longman's Mag. Sept. 441 A scrumpled face. 1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? xvii. 210 He pulled the scrumpled up paper out of his knapsack and spread it out again. |