Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rumple; crinkle or wrinkle.
- To cry like a crane.
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- verb UK, obsolete, dialectal To
crumple .
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Examples
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Or examples of authors who use typewriters and not computers because they like that crunkle of paper?
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He was in a crunkle o 'green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a' by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin '.
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He was in a crunkle o 'green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a' by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin '.
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Susan Kelz Sperling cites three such words: blore (like a sheep), crunkle (like a crane), and winx (like a donkey).
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o ''t, and crunkle 't up in 's han', luikin his greediest.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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"She threw me a paper across the table that I kenned for Maxwell's by the crunkle o 'the sheets.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
fbharjo commented on the word crunkle
a crane's cry
March 15, 2009