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Writhy vs Withy - What's the difference?

writhy | withy |

As adjectives the difference between writhy and withy

is that writhy is characterized by or prone to writhing while withy is flexible, like a withe.

As a noun withy is

the osier willow (species: Salix viminalis).

writhy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • withy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Flexible, like a withe.

    • Synonyms

    * flexible

    Noun

    (withies)
  • The osier willow ().
  • A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe.

    • Synonyms

    * willow