crinkler

From crinkle +‎ -er.

The diaper lover sense is from the plastic backing which many disposable adult diapers have, which makes a crinkling sound; compare crinklebutt and crinklecritter.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪŋk.lə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkrɪŋk.lɚ/
• Hyphenation: crink‧ler

crinkler (plural crinklers)

2. (now uncommon) Something that crinkles.
   • 1920 May 1, Edward H. Smith, “Your Check”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post‎^[1], volume 192, number 44, The Curtis Publishing Company, page 124:

     The general idea was to write the amount in ink and then run or stamp over it with a crinkler which so roughened the paper that alterations seemed impossible. However, it was soon found that the check man laid such checks ona glass andsmoothed down the ruffling.

   • 1930 September 4, “Henry Ford Gives Europe A Shock”, in The China Mail, number 27,584, page 11:

     The brass comes to Oxford in these rolls from the metal mills in Birmingham. The rolls are passed through crinklers, then the crinkled brass is planished, it is cut into correct length, seamed and packed into groups or sets.

   • 1943 March, Dorothy Holmes, “Home-Grown Coffee”, in L. Bush-Brown, editor, The Farmer's Digest, volume 6, number 10, pages 81-82:

     He brought them up only recently, roasted them for about an hour and one-half in a slow oven, at 250 degrees, on a baking sheet, and then ground the beans in a wheat crinkler.

   • 1990, Mark Teague, Moog-Moog, Space Barber‎^[2], Scholastic Corporation, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     The barber set to work with scissors and clippers, electric buzzers and pruning shears. Then he tried crinklers and curlers, hair stretchers and even his X-ray blowgun. A crowd began to gather. Elmo was embarrassed by all the attention. "It's just a haircut," he said.

   • 2004, Maggie Grey, Jane Wild, “Paper crinkler”, in Paper, Metal, and Stitch: Creating Surfaces with Color and Texture publisher=Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 77:

     Using a paper crinkler on metal gives some really exciting effects. Buy the strongest one that you can. Start by cutting the metal into long strips and putting them through the crinkler.

   • 2013 January 31, Elizabeth Emery, “SCULPTURE: Crinkling with a hair crinkler”, in Blogspot‎^[3]:

     In my exploration of using a crinkler to crinkle, I am looking at what happens to a variety of material when placed between the two heated metal plates of a hair crinkler.

4. (colloquial, now rare) Someone that crinkles.
   • 1927 March 23, Punch, or The London Charivari‎^[4], volume 172, published June 1927, page 309:

     Laundry-workers, we read, need different temperaments according to the departments in which they are employed. An expert collar-crinkler, for instance, might lack the dash necessary in the shirt-ripping room.

   • 1958, Anthony Smith, Sea Never Dry‎^[5], George Allen and Unwin, page 115:

     Sense of audience participation is strong even among the more phlegmatic audiences in England, where each person tends to view those others round their seats merely as sniffers, shufflers, paper crinklers, or as obstructionists who block out most of the view.

   • 1992, David Charnee, To Kill a Clown, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     I've never been a big fan of nose crinklers, but she did it in a way that was so cute I had trouble believing that that crinkled nose was on the face of a lawyer for a major corporation.

   • 2015 April 20, Joan Duncan Oliver, “A Raucous Silence”, in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review‎^[6]:

     The wrapper-crinkler, the squirmer, the know-it-all—they all show up in Small Mouth Sounds, a new play that brings the ins and outs of retreat to the stage.

6. (colloquial, rare) Something that makes a crinkling sound.
8. (ABDL, chiefly furry fandom, now uncommon) A diaper lover, especially a furry (a diaperfur).

• (diaper lover): This word is now used more commonly by critics of those interested in ABDL, perhaps unaware of the common nomenclature, though it is not inherently derogatory.