English
shrinker
From shrink + -er.
Formed from shrink + -er
Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną ‘to shrink, pull together, shrivel’
Old English sċrincan ‘to shrink’
Middle English schrynken ‘to shrivel up or wrinkle’
English shrink
Today it means
noun Something that makes something else shrink.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “shrinker”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / shrinker