writhy
English
Etymology
writhe + -y
Adjective
writhy (comparative more writhy, superlative most writhy)
- Characterized by or prone to writhing.
- 1743: Robert Blair, The Grave
- Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research.
- 2003: Richard Rooke, Ready to Dance and Other Poems
- When we caught a writhy, stunted fish, wide-eyed, mouthing silence, which slipped out of our hands, we picked it up, threw it back to its mud-blind home.
- 2005: Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome
- Maud's dances were termed “wiggly, writhy, squirmy”—rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.
- 1743: Robert Blair, The Grave