different between crinkle vs crankle

English

Etymology

From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringan? (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k???k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Verb

crinkle (third-person singular simple present crinkles, present participle crinkling, simple past and past participle crinkled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.

2. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
   • 1908, John Townsend Trowbridge, Vagabonds and other poems

     The green wheat crinkles like a lake.

   • 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh

     All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.

Derived terms

• crinkle-patterned
• uncrinkle

Translations

Noun

crinkle (plural crinkles)

1. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

2. The act of crinkling

Derived terms

• crinkly

Translations

Anagrams

• Clinker, clinker

English

Etymology

crank +? -le.Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?æ?k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Noun

crankle (plural crankles)

1. A bend, twist or crinkle.

Derived terms

• crinkle-crankle

Verb

crankle (third-person singular simple present crankles, present participle crankling, simple past and past participle crankled)

1. To bend, turn, or wind.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 7 p. 105[1]:

     Meander, who is said so intricate to bee,

     Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.

   • 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons' Wars

     Along the crankling path.

2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.

Anagrams

• Lackner, clanker