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Etymology

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writhe +‎ -er

Noun

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writher (plural writhers)

  1. One who writhes.
    • 1961, Thomas Harper Goodspeed, Plant Hunters in the Andes, page 335:
      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 []

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