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writher

noun

Etymology

From writhe + -er.

  1. derived from *wreyt-✻ — “to twist, writhe”
  2. inherited from *wrīþaną✻ — “to weave, twist, turn”
  3. inherited from *wrīþan✻
  4. inherited from wrīþan
  5. inherited from writhen
  6. suffixed as writher — “writhe + er”

Definitions

  1. One who writhes.

    • Then, almost at once, imagination begins to people this totally unfamiliar world with highly undesirable denizens — jaguars and other snarling cats, the bushmaster, the fer-de-lance, and other venomous writhers, and poisonous insects […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA