Wrathy vs Writhy - What's the difference?
wrathy | writhy |
(US) Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 64:
*:When I got there, the old lady appeared to be mighty wrathy ; and when I broached the subject, she looked at me as savage as a meat axe.
*2012 , (PZ Myers), (Reason Rally) speech, 24 Mar 2012:
Characterized by or prone to writhing.
*1743: , 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.
As adjectives the difference between wrathy and writhy
is that wrathy is (us) feeling wrath; very angry, furious while writhy is characterized by or prone to writhing.wrathy
English
Adjective
(er)- There is a sin that is my favorite. It's one I indulge in several times a day. I kinda like — I really kinda like — wrath. And I am feeling wrathy today.