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Wurly

//ˈwɜːliː// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted. Scotland

    "Wurlie, 1. Contemptibly puny, or small in size; as "a wurlie bodie," an ill-grown person, Fife, Loth."

  2. 2
    gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled. Scotland

    "Wurlie, […] 2. Rough, knotted; as, "a wurlie rung," a knotted stick, S. It is applied to a stick that is distorted, Lanarks. As this sense, however, is considerably remote from the other, the term may have had a different origin. 3. Wrinkled, applied to a person; as, a wurly body, Lanarks."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of wurley. Australia, South, alt-of, alternative

    "Poor [William John] Wills's remains we found lying in the wurly in which he died, and where [John] King, after his return from seeking the natives, had buried him with sand and rushes."

Etymology

Variant of wurley.

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