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writhled en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɪðəld/
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Etymology

From writhle + -ed.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) wrinkled
   • 1598, John Marston, fourth Satire, b.i. Cold, writhled eld, his lives-wet almost spent.
   • It cannot be, this weak and writhled shrimp / Should strike such terror to his enemies. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
   • Her writhled skin, as rough as maple rind 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 47:

Forms

Synonyms

bewrinkled · rugose · wrinkly