wrinkling

English

Verb

wrinkling

  1. present participle and gerund of wrinkle

Noun

wrinkling (plural wrinklings)

  1. A pattern of wrinkles.
    • 1849, Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, volume 3, page 251:
      The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression […]
  2. The act of wrinkling.
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 33, in Gormenghast‎, Penguin, published 1969, page 203:
      Would she be able to appreciate the subtlety of their advances, if they made any; those little twitches and twists of the lips, those narrowings and rollings of the eye, those wrinklings of the speculative temple, that shrugging of an eye-brow at play?
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