crankle
31stagger — Synonyms and related words: affright, agitate, alarm, alternate, amaze, amble, amplitude, arrhythmia, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, back and fill, barge, be drunk, be incredible, be intoxicated, be unbelievable, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder,… …
32wrinkle — Synonyms and related words: abbreviate, age, bezel, bonus, bristle, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat the undertaker, chink, chisel, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate …
33zag — Synonyms and related words: L, angle, angle off, apex, bend, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, branch, cant, chevron, coin, corner, crank, crankiness, crankle, crook, crookedness, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, flexuosity, fork, furcate,… …
34zigzag — Synonyms and related words: L, V shaped, Y shaped, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, akimbo, alternate, angle, angle off, angular, apex, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, battledore and shuttlecock, bend, bendy, bent, bias,… …
35higgledy-piggledy — confusedly, hurriedly, 1590s, a vocal gesture [OED] probably formed from PIG (Cf. pig) and the animal s suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h /p pattern are common (e.g. hanky panky, hocus pocus, hinch(y) pinch(y), an obsolete …
36crank — I. n. 1. Turning handle. 2. Bend, turn, winding, involution, twist, quirk. 3. Twist or turn of speech, play upon words, quirk. II. a. 1. Easy to be overset, unsteady. 2. Shaky, crazy, loose, disjointed. III …
37crinkle — I. v. n. 1. Crankle, run in and out, wind, bend. 2. Wrinkle, curl, be corrugated. II. v. a. Wrinkle, corrugate, curl …
38crinkle — v 1. turn, bend, crankle, buckle; wind, coil, twist. 2. wrinkle, crimple, cockle, crumple, knit, shrivel, pucker, gather, smock, tuck; crimp, flute, ruffle, scallop; corrugate, furrow, groove, ridge, striate; ripple, wave, curl, friz, frizzle. 3 …
39cringle-crangle — |kriŋgəl|kraŋgəl adverb (or adjective) Etymology: probably alteration of crinkle crankle : in a zigzag manner …
40crinkum-crankum — |kriŋkəm|kraŋkəm noun ( s) Etymology: alteration (influenced by Latin nouns ending in um) of crinkle crankle archaic : something full of twists and turns : a thing fancifully or excessively intricate and elaborate …
