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