English Explanatory Dictionary

crankle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
  1. To bend, turn, or wind.
  2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɹæŋkəl/ [ˈkʰɹʷæŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷæŋkl̩] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crankle.wav /ˈkɹeɪ̯ŋkəl/ [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkl̩] /ˈkɹɛ̃ŋkəl/ [ˈkʰɹʷɛ̃ŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷɛ̃ŋkl̩]

Word forms

crankle crankles crankling crankled

Etymology

From 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’."

Derived words

crinkle-crankle
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