Ruckle
/ˈrʌkəl/noun
To wrinkle, rumple, or crease something, especially in Scottish and northern English usage.
Did you know?Ruckle is chiefly dialectal and is closely associated with the same Germanic vocabulary of wrinkling and rough folds that produced words such as “ruck” and “wrinkle.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic period
Germanic
*hrukkōn
“A reconstructed Germanic root associated with wrinkling, folding, or creasing; the exact lineage of ruckle is not completely certain.”
Old Norse
Old Norse
hrukka
“A wrinkle or fold.”
Middle English
English
rukke
“A fold, crease, or gathered mass; related to the vocabulary behind modern “ruck.””
16th–17th Century
Scots/English
ruckle
“To wrinkle, rumple, or make folds in something.”
Modern English
English
ruckle
“A chiefly Scottish or northern English verb meaning to wrinkle or rumple.”