1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 321 There are several Signs to know..when the Milk is scalded enough; one is, by feeling it with the Finger..a second is, when the Milk appears crinkly on the Top; a third is, by the dull Sounding of the Brass Pan.

1794 J. Walters Eng.-Welsh Dict. Crinkly, or full of crinkles.

1861 Chambers's Jrnl. 13 July 17/1 Where may now be that delightful young lady with the violet eyes, and the crinkly hair?

1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. lx His veins 'ould run All crinkly like curled maple.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. viii. 159 Unfolding crinkly green leaves.

1919 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 27 Nov. 2/6 Turkey all crinkly and wrinkly and tender.

1962 A. Rake Tom Mboya iv. 40 Crinkly hair had been devotedly combed with wooden spiked brushes.

1999 S. De Santis Life on Line xiii. 212 A slim blonde with long, crinkly hair, a tough expression, and great cheekbones.

2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xli. 359 He'd wrapped a crinkly silver blanket around my shoulders.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 491 You're unpleasant aneuch when ye..draw your breath through a wat crinkly cough.

1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 475 Does my voice come from my heart in a crinkly cough, as if the lungs were rotten?

1911 H. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill iii The white, crinkly sound of the silk of her dress against the table.

1999 P. Cooper 277 Secrets your Snake & Lizard wants you to Know 104 Put out the kind of supermarket bag that makes a crinkly sound... The crinkly sound will give its whereabouts away.