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Meaning of kinkly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Liable to kink or curl; kinky.

obsolete

Examples

“and were addicted to short kinkly curls, exaggerated, in the case of villains of more than ordinary atrocity, into a stream of raven locks[…]”
“When I knew him he was forty years of age, a thin, spare creature, with a bush of kinkly hair, negro lips, and a long face like that of a horse.”
“Hair has different form, texture, weight and shape in cross section, like, straight, wavy, curly, kinkly and woolly or peppercorn.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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