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Original entry ↗A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. · The natural curliness of wool fibres. · Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. · A card game.
From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
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- Inherited-form mentioncrimpenenm · to be contracted, be drawn together
- Derivation mentioncrimpendum
- Derivation mention*krimpanągem-pro · to shrink, draw back
- Cognate mentionġecrympanang · to curl
- Cognate mentionkrimpennl
- Cognate mentionkreppafo
- Cognate mentionkreppais · to bend tightly, clench
- Cognate mentioncrymplenenm · to wrinkle
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