writhy

English

Etymology

writhe +‎ -y

Adjective

writhy (comparative more writhy, superlative most writhy)

1. Characterized by or prone to writhing.
   • 1743, Robert Blair, The Grave:

     Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research.

   • 2003, Richard Rooke, Ready to Dance and Other Poems:

     When we caught a writhy, stunted fish, wide-eyed, mouthing silence, which slipped out of our hands, we picked it up, threw it back to its mud-blind home.

   • 2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome:

     Maud's dances were termed “wiggly, writhy, squirmy”—rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.