twiny
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
twiny (comparative more twiny, superlative most twiny)
- Tending to twine; twisting around.
- a plant with a twiny stem
- Made of twine; having the appearance of twine.
- 1973, Winifred Nowottny -, Hopkins's Language of Prayer & Praise[1], page 9:
- And so one may re-read 'Epithalamion', observing that to put off bleached linen and woven woolwear and twiny boots is (even if comic) to shuffle off this mortal coil […]
- (UK, North Country, dialect, archaic) fretful; uneasy
References[edit]
- John Trotter Brockett (1825) A glossary of North country words, in use, page 223