wrinkling
English edit
Verb edit
wrinkling
- present participle and gerund of wrinkle
Noun edit
wrinkling (plural wrinklings)
- 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 […]
- The act of wrinkling.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 33, in Gormenghast[1], 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?