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wrynecked

wrynecked adjective: torticollic.

Adjective

wrynecked (comparative more wrynecked, superlative most wrynecked)

  1. (archaic) torticollic
    • 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.1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions
    • “Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 123

Forms of wrynecked

comparativemore wrynecked
superlativemost wrynecked

Origin of wrynecked

From wryneck + -ed.

Questions about wrynecked

What does wrynecked mean?
Wrynecked means torticollic.
What part of speech is wrynecked?
Wrynecked is an adjective.

Words near wrynecked in the dictionary

  1. wrylies
  2. wryly
  3. wrymouth
  4. wrymouths
  5. wryneck
  6. wrynecked
  7. wrynecks
  8. wryness
  9. wrynesses
  10. wrytail
  11. Wrythe

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