wurlie

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of wurley. alt-of,alternative
    — But latterly they came in good numbers, and commenced a nightly system of annoyance by dancing their corroberies:[…]. Finding remonstrance of no avail, one evening, when they were all seated quietly at the wurlie [footnote: Encampment.], I fired a charge of small shot into the midst of them, and retired to the hut: in the morning they had all disappeared.
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative spelling of wurly (“derisorily small”). Scotland,alt-of,alternative
    — Wurlie, 1. Contemptibly puny, or small in size; as "a wurlie bodie," an ill-grown person, Fife, Loth.
  2. gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled. Scotland
    — 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.

词形变化

wurlier comparative more wurlie comparative wurliest superlative most wurlie superlative wurlies plural

词汇关系

近义词
petty puny tiny rugose wrinkly
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