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"Wrinkle"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ɹʌk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ckruStarts with REnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (RUCK).

Definitions

  1. become wrinkled or drawn together

Word origin

From Middle English ruke, from or related to Old Norse hraukr, which is from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“haystack, heap”). Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.

Used in a sentence

  • ‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’
  • Your worth as a couple is not down to how passionate your rucks are—I said rucks—and how frantic the making-up sex is.
  • Puzzle begged very hard to have the lion-skin taken off him. He said it was too hot and the way it was rucked up on his back was uncomfortable […]

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