writhingn.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪðɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈraɪðɪŋ/

Forms: see writhe v. and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s (1900s– in sense 2) wrything.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: writhe v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < writhe v. + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old English gewrīþing binding ( < gewrīþan (see writhe v.) + -ing suffix¹), and also onwrīþung ligament, bandage.

a. The action or an act of writhe v. (in various senses); esp. the action or an act of moving with a twisting or coiling motion. Also with away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]

throwingOE

wringinga1375

twining1398

wrenching1398

wresting1398

writhing?a1400

wrying1566

wreathing1571

convolution1597

twinding1602

contortion1611

distorquement1628

distortion1718

twisting1725

quirling1754

circumgyration1843

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion > making

frowningc1400

mowing1440

frouncing1530

writhing1577

mopping1615

working1770

girning1900

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 1822 With trip forset ilk oþer to gyle. In lifte & writhyng þei fraist vmwhile.

c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) l. 96 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 258 Ȝif ony offence or writhyng in hem be, Þu art ay redy up-on her woo for to rewe.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiii Yf lyberte lacked a reyne where with to rule hym with the wrythyng of a rest.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. Q/1 Let..thy laughter [be] without vnseemely writhing of thy mouth and visage.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 60 A writhing away or turning about of the bodie.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 84 The Writhing [of a tree] is the turning of branches.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xxxvii. 34 The Writhings of the wrathful Asp.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxxiii. 130 The writhings of a wounded heart.

1889 W. C. Russell Marooned I. xii. 208 A slow writhing..of the shadowy substance of the brig's sails, masts, and hull, into determinable forms.

1991 Sci. News 11 May 293/1 Neuroleptic drugs may also trigger tardive dystonia, a slower twisting and writhing of the head, neck and other body parts.

2020 Express (Nexis) 5 June (National ed. 1) (Features section) 39 The raunchy on-stage wriggling and writhing of his heyday.

†b. spec. The action of straining, distorting, or perverting the meaning of something; the twisting of a person's words. Also: an instance of this. Cf. wresting n. 2, wringing n. 4. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun]

wrestingc1444

pervertinga1450

corruptiona1513

straining1528

writhing?1532

hacking1539

violence1546

racking1556

wrying1562

wringing1565

detorting1579

wrest1581

detortion1598

wrench1603

torture1605

distorting1610

violencing1612

refraction1614

misacception1629

distortion1650

distorture1709

misacceptation1721

torturing1753

verbicide1826

stretch1849

twisting1890

queeringness1955

?1532 Glasse of Truthe To Rdr. sig. A2 The counsels and ordinances of the churche vniuersall, of mooste auncient popes and other holy doctours wryttinges, with the factes and authoryties of blessed men besyde, withoute wrythinge or wrestynge of any of them.

1555 J. Traves Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. App. xxxiii. 87 Without wrythyng, wrastyng, or doubtyng of his promis.

1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 78, in Apol. Priuate Masse All the argumentes that you haue brought are nothing but writhinges of extraordinary cases.

1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 189 What wrything and wringing the Protestants make to shift off this place.

2. In form wrything. Spirally twisted ornamentation on glassware; = wrythening n. Cf. writhen adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > other embedded or relief decoration

crystallo-ceramie1821

crystallo-ceramic1822

puntya1884

reticello1899

writhing1929

wrythening1960

1929 W. A. Thorpe Hist. Eng. & Irish Glass I. v. 166 The wrything was done by twisting the paraison while it was being blown.

1970 Britannia 1 223 (table) One-handled jug of greenish glass, and spiral ‘wrything’.

1997 Bottle (object record) in https://collections.vam.ac.uk (accessed 1 Sept. 2021) Blue glass, freeblown, spiral ribbed wrything at the neck.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

writhingadj.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪðɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈraɪðɪŋ/

Forms: see writhe v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: writhe v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < writhe v. + -ing suffix².

†1. That practises extortion. Cf. wresting adj. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective]

writhinga1529

torcenous1532

bloodsucking1548

racking1576

exacting1583

extorting1598

extortious1607

sharking1608

wringing1620

exactious1630

extortionizing1630

extortionable1632

extortioninga1641

extortionous1644

extortive1646

screwing1647

extracting1654

hirudinous1654

rack-renting1779

extortionate1789

extortionary1805

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii Let your lust and lykynge stande for a lawe. Be wrastynge and wrythynge and away drawe.

a. That writhes; twisting or turning to and fro.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective]

wrestinga1529

writhing1556

retorting1588

wringinga1600

wrenching1618

reluctant1667

twirlinga1719

quirling1755

convoluting1818

contortional1918

1556 [implied in: T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie sig. A.iv^v The heare much bristlyng, and standyng vp in a bushe writhingly, declare that man to bee much simple, bolde, proude, of a dull capacitie. (at writhingly adv. at Derivatives)].

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 123^v Thither came The wrything Iuye, and the Uyne that runnes vppon a frame.

1798 R. Bloomfield Farmer's Boy 76 Where writhing earth-worms meet th' unwelcome day.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxxvii. 108 Smiles..raise the writhing lip with ill-dissembled sneer.

1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves x. 170 The forked and writhing lightning.

1882 T. S. Hudson Scamper thro' Amer. 171 Our driver adroitly left one [rattlesnake] a writhing corpse.

1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness (1972) vii. 127 He stepped forward to the writhing Lady Mary and presented a small phial to her nose.

2019 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Music section) Step into Steam Down, the weekly jazz jam in south-east London, and you'll be pulled into a mass of jumping, writhing bodies.

b. Of an action, feeling, etc.: characterized by or involving writhing.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > moving sinuously

writhing?1561

serpent-likea1586

wringling1596

winding1613

writhy1743

sinuous1897

?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding vvx. sig. L.ii^v For the most part suche writhing tournes doe chaunce in the manege without rest.

1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets iii. 128 The writhing agonies within.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vii. v. 202 A writhing attempt to smile.

1927 Youth's Compan. 6 Jan. 5/4 Jimmy..snatched the ball off the floor on the bounce and, with a twisting, writhing motion, whirled it upward against the bank.

1992 J. B. Nelson Body Theol. viii. 133 Patients can often tolerate writhing pain when they know its source and know it is correctable and temporary.

2018 Kashmir Monitor (Nexis) 12 Feb. A complication called dyskinesia, marked by involuntary writhing movements.

Derivatives

ˈwrithingly adv. (a) in a writhing manner; (b) so embarrassingly, distastefully, etc., as to cause a person to cringe or squirm.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adverb]

writhingly1556

wryingly1611

wrestingly1613

wrenchingly1884

1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie sig. A.iv^v The heare much bristlyng, and standyng vp in a bushe writhingly, declare that man to bee much simple, bolde, proude, of a dull capacitie.

1663 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Art Chirurg.: 5th Bk. Pract. Physick (new ed.) iii. iv. 2618/1 The Ophiasis creepeth up and down writhingly like unto a Serpent.

1842 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 4 Apr. I will not indulge in mirth at the expense of those who now writhingly regret their sneers.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. vii. 10 Turning over writhingly in her chair.

1977 Novel 11 68 The chapter containing so many examples of writhingly uncomfortable theory.

1997 Independent (Nexis) 8 Feb. 17 John Prescott, whose biography..was launched at a writhingly busy, smoky and convivial party in Soho this week.

2012 MailOnline (Nexis) 3 June A writhingly embarrassing article headlined ‘Why do women keep make [sic] passes at me?’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	writhing
释义	writhingn. Brit. /ˈrʌɪðɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraɪðɪŋ/ Forms: see writhe v. and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s (1900s– in sense 2) wrything. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: writhe v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < writhe v. + -ing suffix¹.Compare Old English gewrīþing binding ( < gewrīþan (see writhe v.) + -ing suffix¹), and also onwrīþung ligament, bandage. 1. a. The action or an act of writhe v. (in various senses); esp. the action or an act of moving with a twisting or coiling motion. Also with away. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] throwingOE wringinga1375 twining1398 wrenching1398 wresting1398 writhing?a1400 wrying1566 wreathing1571 convolution1597 twinding1602 contortion1611 distorquement1628 distortion1718 twisting1725 quirling1754 circumgyration1843 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion > making frowningc1400 mowing1440 frouncing1530 writhing1577 mopping1615 working1770 girning1900 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 1822 With trip forset ilk oþer to gyle. In lifte & writhyng þei fraist vmwhile. c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) l. 96 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 258 Ȝif ony offence or writhyng in hem be, Þu art ay redy up-on her woo for to rewe. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiii Yf lyberte lacked a reyne where with to rule hym with the wrythyng of a rest. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. Q/1 Let..thy laughter [be] without vnseemely writhing of thy mouth and visage. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 60 A writhing away or turning about of the bodie. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 84 The Writhing [of a tree] is the turning of branches. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xxxvii. 34 The Writhings of the wrathful Asp. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxxiii. 130 The writhings of a wounded heart. 1889 W. C. Russell Marooned I. xii. 208 A slow writhing..of the shadowy substance of the brig's sails, masts, and hull, into determinable forms. 1991 Sci. News 11 May 293/1 Neuroleptic drugs may also trigger tardive dystonia, a slower twisting and writhing of the head, neck and other body parts. 2020 Express (Nexis) 5 June (National ed. 1) (Features section) 39 The raunchy on-stage wriggling and writhing of his heyday. †b. spec. The action of straining, distorting, or perverting the meaning of something; the twisting of a person's words. Also: an instance of this. Cf. wresting n. 2, wringing n. 4. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] wrestingc1444 pervertinga1450 corruptiona1513 straining1528 writhing?1532 hacking1539 violence1546 racking1556 wrying1562 wringing1565 detorting1579 wrest1581 detortion1598 wrench1603 torture1605 distorting1610 violencing1612 refraction1614 misacception1629 distortion1650 distorture1709 misacceptation1721 torturing1753 verbicide1826 stretch1849 twisting1890 queeringness1955 ?1532 Glasse of Truthe To Rdr. sig. A2 The counsels and ordinances of the churche vniuersall, of mooste auncient popes and other holy doctours wryttinges, with the factes and authoryties of blessed men besyde, withoute wrythinge or wrestynge of any of them. 1555 J. Traves Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. App. xxxiii. 87 Without wrythyng, wrastyng, or doubtyng of his promis. 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 78, in Apol. Priuate Masse All the argumentes that you haue brought are nothing but writhinges of extraordinary cases. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 189 What wrything and wringing the Protestants make to shift off this place. 2. In form wrything. Spirally twisted ornamentation on glassware; = wrythening n. Cf. writhen adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > other embedded or relief decoration crystallo-ceramie1821 crystallo-ceramic1822 puntya1884 reticello1899 writhing1929 wrythening1960 1929 W. A. Thorpe Hist. Eng. & Irish Glass I. v. 166 The wrything was done by twisting the paraison while it was being blown. 1970 Britannia 1 223 (table) One-handled jug of greenish glass, and spiral ‘wrything’. 1997 Bottle (object record) in https://collections.vam.ac.uk (accessed 1 Sept. 2021) Blue glass, freeblown, spiral ribbed wrything at the neck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). writhingadj. Brit. /ˈrʌɪðɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraɪðɪŋ/ Forms: see writhe v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: writhe v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < writhe v. + -ing suffix². †1. That practises extortion. Cf. wresting adj. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective] writhinga1529 torcenous1532 bloodsucking1548 racking1576 exacting1583 extorting1598 extortious1607 sharking1608 wringing1620 exactious1630 extortionizing1630 extortionable1632 extortioninga1641 extortionous1644 extortive1646 screwing1647 extracting1654 hirudinous1654 rack-renting1779 extortionate1789 extortionary1805 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii Let your lust and lykynge stande for a lawe. Be wrastynge and wrythynge and away drawe. 2. a. That writhes; twisting or turning to and fro. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] wrestinga1529 writhing1556 retorting1588 wringinga1600 wrenching1618 reluctant1667 twirlinga1719 quirling1755 convoluting1818 contortional1918 1556 [implied in: T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie sig. A.iv^v The heare much bristlyng, and standyng vp in a bushe writhingly, declare that man to bee much simple, bolde, proude, of a dull capacitie. (at writhingly adv. at Derivatives)]. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 123^v Thither came The wrything Iuye, and the Uyne that runnes vppon a frame. 1798 R. Bloomfield Farmer's Boy 76 Where writhing earth-worms meet th' unwelcome day. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxxvii. 108 Smiles..raise the writhing lip with ill-dissembled sneer. 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves x. 170 The forked and writhing lightning. 1882 T. S. Hudson Scamper thro' Amer. 171 Our driver adroitly left one [rattlesnake] a writhing corpse. 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness (1972) vii. 127 He stepped forward to the writhing Lady Mary and presented a small phial to her nose. 2019 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Music section) Step into Steam Down, the weekly jazz jam in south-east London, and you'll be pulled into a mass of jumping, writhing bodies. b. Of an action, feeling, etc.: characterized by or involving writhing. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > moving sinuously writhing?1561 serpent-likea1586 wringling1596 winding1613 writhy1743 sinuous1897 ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding vvx. sig. L.ii^v For the most part suche writhing tournes doe chaunce in the manege without rest. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets iii. 128 The writhing agonies within. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vii. v. 202 A writhing attempt to smile. 1927 Youth's Compan. 6 Jan. 5/4 Jimmy..snatched the ball off the floor on the bounce and, with a twisting, writhing motion, whirled it upward against the bank. 1992 J. B. Nelson Body Theol. viii. 133 Patients can often tolerate writhing pain when they know its source and know it is correctable and temporary. 2018 Kashmir Monitor (Nexis) 12 Feb. A complication called dyskinesia, marked by involuntary writhing movements. Derivatives ˈwrithingly adv. (a) in a writhing manner; (b) so embarrassingly, distastefully, etc., as to cause a person to cringe or squirm. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adverb] writhingly1556 wryingly1611 wrestingly1613 wrenchingly1884 1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie sig. A.iv^v The heare much bristlyng, and standyng vp in a bushe writhingly, declare that man to bee much simple, bolde, proude, of a dull capacitie. 1663 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Art Chirurg.: 5th Bk. Pract. Physick (new ed.) iii. iv. 2618/1 The Ophiasis creepeth up and down writhingly like unto a Serpent. 1842 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 4 Apr. I will not indulge in mirth at the expense of those who now writhingly regret their sneers. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. vii. 10 Turning over writhingly in her chair. 1977 Novel 11 68 The chapter containing so many examples of writhingly uncomfortable theory. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 8 Feb. 17 John Prescott, whose biography..was launched at a writhingly busy, smoky and convivial party in Soho this week. 2012 MailOnline (Nexis) 3 June A writhingly embarrassing article headlined ‘Why do women keep make [sic] passes at me?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.?a1400adj.a1529
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