Writher

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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