Wrinkly means covered in small creases. A wrinkly face, wrinkly skin, wrinkly fingers.
Fingers go wrinkly in water because the nervous system does it deliberately, which appears to improve grip on wet things. Of a person the word is informal and best kept for yourself.
1adjectivewrinklyCovered in small creases.
“My grandfather's wrinkly hands were still strong enough to chop wood.”
wrinkly is a quality.
Also accepted in games: wrinkled
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From wrinkle + -y. wrinkle comes from Middle English wrinkle, wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the verb (see below). Cognate with Dutch wrinkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Compare also Middle English runkel (“wrinkle”), from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle, crease”), whence also French fronce (“crooked smile, scowl, frown”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Danish rynke (“wrinkle”), Swedish rynka and rynkla (“wrinkle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA