different between rimple vs timple

English

Etymology

From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpilj?, related to Old English hrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpan? (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp?l

Noun

rimple (plural rimples)

1. A wrinkle. [from 10th c.]

Related terms

• ramp
• ripple
• rumple

Verb

rimple (third-person singular simple present rimples, present participle rimpling, simple past and past participle rimpled)

1. (now chiefly US) To wrinkle or crease. [from 15th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 261:

     The evening was fine, and the air so still, that it scarcely waved the light leaves of the trees around, or rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below.

   • 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John

     He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]

Anagrams

• limper, per mil, prelim, rempli

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp?l

Noun

timple (plural timples)

1. A traditional musical instrument of the Canary Islands and Murcia, having four or more commonly five strings, and similar in size to a ukulele but with a distinctive semi-round back.

Anagrams

• limpet