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English
Etymology
From writhle + -ed.
Pronunciation
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :It cannot be, this weak and writhled shrimp / Should strike such terror to his enemies.
- 1598, John Marston, fourth Satire, b.i.
- Cold, writhled eld, his lives-wet almost spent.
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