Ruckle

Quick meaning: Ruckle is a verb meaning To crease or wrinkle.

Meaning

To crease or wrinkle.

More Meanings

1. A disordered collection.
2. A wrinkle.
3. (Scotland) A rattling noise in the throat, as from suffocation.
4. (Scotland, intransitive) To make a rattling noise in the throat.

Example Sentences

It meant ruckling his sock right down, and nobody likes a ruckly sock, but this was no time to be stopped by a ruckle.

My father said to me after the harvest, 'Now your mother's a ruckle of bones in the kirkyard, there's nobody to knit sea stockings for us.

When she was little and I went to see her in bed, I often thought she wasn't there. She lay so neatly and so straight, without a ruckle and with her head just under the top of the bedclothes.

The ground there is a ruckle of loose stones arranged in flat beds by running water, possibly by streams which flow out of 'the Gulf of Mexico,' or whatever the name of the highest corrie may be.

Word Forms

• ruckles
• ruckling
• ruckled

Synonyms for ruckle

Depending on context, synonyms include crisp, crinkle, crease, scrunch, wrinkle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crease, wrinkle, crinkle, scrunch, crisp, runkle.

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