Small wrinkles or creases; to form many small wrinkles or creases.
From 'crinkle' plus the plural or third-person singular suffix '-s.' The base word likely derives from Middle Dutch or Scandinavian languages, with the '-le' suffix intensifying the action.
Paper crinkles and skin crinkles, but they're fundamentally different phenomena—yet we use the same word for both. This shows how English prioritizes the visual pattern (wrinkles) over the physical cause, letting one word describe many different materials.
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