Noun: wrinkle
| Singular | wrinkle |
| Plural | wrinkles |
Sample Sentences
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Spending time out in the sun may cause you to develop wrinkles sooner.
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We need to iron out the wrinkles in the plan before implementing it.
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We've added a couple of new wrinkles to the policy.
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There were now a grab bag of southern country-rock units with a new wrinkle—Black Oak Arkansas, for one, combined psychedelia, fifties rock, Hindu spiritualism, and gospel into “psycho-boogie,” or “raunch 'n' roll.” [2015, Mark Ribowsky, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars:]
Nouns inflected like wrinkle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English wrinkle, wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the verb (see below). Cognate with Dutch wrinkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Compare also Middle English runkel (“wrinkle”), from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle, crease”), whence also French fronce (“crooked smile, scowl, frown”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Danish rynke (“wrinkle”), Swedish rynka and rynkla (“wrinkle”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wrinkle', Middle English Nouns '
runkel', Old Norse Nouns '
hrukka', French Nouns '
fronce', German Nouns '
Runzel', Danish Nouns '
rynke', Swedish Nouns '
rynka'.