Writhe vs Writhy - What's the difference?
writhe | writhy |
To twist, to wring (something).
To contort (a part of the body).
*, II.17:
*:Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome to wryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer.
To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
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 a verb writhe
is to twist, to wring (something).As a noun writhe
is the number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot.As an adjective writhy is
characterized by or prone to writhing.writhe
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Verb
Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.}} (Webster 1913)