Writher
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From writhe + -er.
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