wurly

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɜːliː/    美 /ˈwɝli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of wurley. Australia,South,alt-of,alternative
    — Poor [William John] Wills's remains we found lying in the wurly in which he died, and where [John] King, after his return from seeking the natives, had buried him with sand and rushes.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted. Scotland
    — 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 wurly comparative wurliest superlative most wurly superlative wirly alternative wurlie alternative wurlies plural

词汇关系

近义词
petty puny tiny rugose wrinkly

词源

Variant of wurley.
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