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English
Etymology
From whelk + -ed.
Adjective
whelked (not comparable)
- Having whelks; whelky.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :He had a thousand noses, / Horns whelked and waved like the enragèd sea. / It was some fiend.
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