writhle
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]writhe + -le (frequentative suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɹɪðəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]writhle (third-person singular simple present writhles, present participle writhling, simple past and past participle writhled)
- (obsolete) to wrinkle, to shrink
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her writhled skin, as rough as Maple rind