wrynecked
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editwrynecked (comparative more wrynecked, superlative most wrynecked)
- (archaic) torticollic
- 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:
- In the thick of these scents and sounds [...] reclined Captain John Barker—a little wry-necked gentleman, with a prodigious hump between his shoulders, and legs that dangled two inches off the floor.
Translations
edithaving a twisted or distorted neck
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References
edit- “wrynecked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.