rivel
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of rivel
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
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verb
- (intransitive)To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
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(transitive)To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
“they crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies […]”
noun
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(obsolete)A wrinkle; a rimple.
“It wanteth the due parching and ripening against the sunne: and by that meanes commeth short of the rivels and blacknesse that the outlandish pepper hath.”
- (US)A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.
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Etymology
From Middle English rivelen, from Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”), from a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *ribjōną (“to wrap; wind; roll; twist; coil”), equivalent to rive + -el (frequentative suffix). Related to Old Norse rifja (“to rake (hay) into rows or furrows”).
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