writher

English

Etymology

writhe +‎ -er

Noun

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 […]

Anagrams

• whirret