writhled

English

Etymology

writhle +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪðəld/
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Adjective

writhled (comparative more writhled, superlative most writhled)

(obsolete) wrinkled
- 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 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
  It cannot be, this weak and writhled shrimp / Should strike such terror to his enemies.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 47:
  Her writhled skin, as rough as maple rind
- 1598, John Marston, fourth Satire, b.i.
  Cold, writhled eld, his lives-wet almost spent.

Synonyms

bewrinkled, rugose, wrinkly; see also Thesaurus:wrinkled

References

writhle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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