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wrinch

wrinch verb: to complain or grouse about. Also the obsolete form of rinse.

Verb

wrinch (third-person singular simple present wrinches, present participle wrinching, simple past and past participle wrinched)

  1. (intransitive, Bermuda) To complain or grouse about.
    • I write this to say that often, far too often, we wrinch about a business or we wrinch about “Bermudians' poor customer service”. Yet in the midst of the wrinching, we forget to acknowledge when we receive excellent service.2015 May 28, Christopher Famous, “Giving credit where credit is due”, in The Royal Gazette, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022
  2. (transitive, Bermuda) To scold.
    • My daddies wrinching about how all the women in this house have shoppin problems😆.. Noone told u have 3 girls pops!2013 August 26, @latina_xxx, Twitter
    • As soon as I got in the chair today, he wrinched me for coming out of character.2022 June 3, @iAmNeilly, Twitter

Also used as

wrinch is also the obsolete form of rinse.

Forms of wrinch

third-person singular presentwrinches
present participlewrinching
past participlewrinched
pastwrinched

Origin of wrinch

Probably an alteration of wrench.

Questions about wrinch

What does wrinch mean?
Wrinch means to complain or grouse about.
What part of speech is wrinch?
Wrinch is a verb.
What is the past tense of wrinch?
The past tense of wrinch is wrinched.

Words near wrinch in the dictionary

  1. wrigs
  2. wrily
  3. WRIM
  4. wrimple
  5. wrimples
  6. wrinch
  7. wrinched
  8. wrinches
  9. wrinching
  10. wrine
  11. Wrinehill

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