Definitions
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- adjective obsolete
wrinkled
Etymologies
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writhe + -le + -ed
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Examples
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Upon this a grey-haired, writhled shrimp, who had heard of the presence of an earthly man, came and fell at my feet, weeping profusely.
The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702
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859: It cannot be, this weake and writhled shrimpe
she commented on the word writhled
Obs. adj., Of persons, the skin, etc.: Wrinkled; shrivelled, withered.
August 13, 2008