runklyadj.
/ˈrʌŋk(ə)li/, U.S. /ˈrəŋk(ə)li/, Scottish English /ˈrʌŋk(ə)lɪ/ Scottish.
Full of wrinkles; wrinkled, esp. with age. Sc. National Dict. (at Runkle) records this sense as still in widespread use in Scotland in 1968.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased
rivelledlOE
hirpleda1400
runkleda1400
rimpleda1425
wrimpledc1430
crimpled1440
frumpledc1440
runkle?1440
ruscledc1440
crumple1523
wrinkled?1523
creased1545
pursy1552
shrivelled1565
wrinkly1573
crumpled1577
ruffed1578
scrimpledc1590
wrizzled1590
wimpled1599
rucked1600
puckered1606
cappard1608
wrinkleful1608
plighty1615
yfrouncta1643
puggered1653
caperated1657
wreathed1657
pursed1676
crinkly1750
runkly1772
wrinkling1791
ruckya1825
puckery1830
creasy1858
seamy1874
crinkle1886
kinkled1890
bumfled1943
1772 ‘H. Clinker’ Folly Witless Women 8 A rickle of banes row'd up in a runkly skin.
1793 R. Gray Poems 14 For you that's fie a fair spent chield, Although it's not with runkly eild.
a1810 R. Tannahill Poems & Songs (1815) 153 Wealthy Pride but ill can hide Your runkly measl't shins.
1871 R. Allan Poems 120 She was sae ronkly and sae auld a dame.
1959 S. Goodsir Smith tr. T. Corbière Gangrel Rymour in Figs & Thistles 79 Ye'll see her runklie face runkle Wi a smile.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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