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wurlie

wurlie adjective: gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled. Also the alternative spelling of wurly.

Adjective

wurlie (comparative wurlier or more wurlie, superlative wurliest or most wurlie)

  1. (Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
    • Wurlie, […] 2. Rough, knotted; as, "a wurlie rung," a knotted stick, S. It is applied to a stick that is distorted, Lanarks. As this sense, however, is considerably remote from the other, the term may have had a different origin. 3. Wrinkled, applied to a person; as, a wurly body, Lanarks.[1825, John Jamieson, “Wurlie”, in Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: […], volume II (K–Z) (in Scots), Edinburgh: […] University Press; for W[illiam] & C[harles]...

Also used as

wurlie is also the alternative spelling of wurly.

wurlie is also the alternative spelling of wurley.

Synonyms of wurlie

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Forms of wurlie

Adjective
comparativewurlier
comparativemore wurlie
superlativewurliest
superlativemost wurlie
Noun
pluralwurlies

Questions about wurlie

What does wurlie mean?
Wurlie means gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
What part of speech is wurlie?
Wurlie is an adjective.

Words near wurlie in the dictionary

  1. wurds
  2. Wurdz
  3. Wurih
  4. wurley
  5. wurleys
  6. wurlie
  7. wurlier
  8. wurlies
  9. wurliest
  10. Wurlitzer
  11. Wurlitzers

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