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crinkly page

crinkly page

7.0
A page that is wrinkled and makes a soft rustling sound when you touch it
  • noun
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  • He carefully turned the crinkly pages of the worn-out book, trying not to tear them further.

Examples

  • She opens an enormous leather-bound book with yellowed crinkly pages.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • As she read the recipe, the crinkly pages of the cookbook crumbled slightly under her touch.

  • The old library was filled with ancient volumes, their crinkly pages whispering stories of the past.

Surface Forms

crinkly page singular
crinkly pages plural

Morphology

crinkly + page

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'crinkly' (having small wrinkles) with 'page' (a sheet of a book or document), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer 'a wrinkled or creased page'. This is a straightforward adjective–noun composition common across languages and follows normal English compounding patterns.

Etymology

Crinkly page comes from the picture of a page with many small folds: crinkly makes you think of tiny wrinkles and the soft rustling sound paper makes when you touch it. That's why the phrase means a page that is 'wrinkled', 'aged', or 'delicate'.