a. Obs. Also 5 wrymplyd. [f. MDu. or MLG. *wrimpelen (older Flem. wrenpelen ‘to drawe the mouth awry,’ Hexham), frequentative of MLG. wrempen, wrimpen to wrinkle, bend, turn. Cf. the earlier RIMPLED a.] Wrinkled, rimpled or puckered; creased.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 203. I can not armys blase, Nor to the fulle rynge hire belle, That is so wrymplyd as a mase.
1553. Eden, Treat. New Ind. (Arb.), 37. Neyther haue they theyr bellies wrimpeled or loose.
1577. Whetstone, Gascoigne, B j. I holde a forme, within a wrimpled skin.
1592. R. D[allington], Hypnerotomachia, 28 b. A Dragon[’s] … wrimpled backe.
1611. Cotgr., Renfrongné,… wrimpled, crumpled, puckered.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. I. xlvii. Wafts of winds centrall That ruffle … Psyche’s wrimpled veil.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 23. The wrimpled skin … of that old man.
1672. trans. Hurtado’s Lazarillo, II. O 4. Seeing me so bleak, and wrimpled, like an old Wives belly.
