whelked

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adjective

Having whelks; whelky.

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Meanings

adjectivewhelked (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving whelks; whelky.

    He had a thousand noses, / Horns whelked and waved like the enragèd sea. / It was some fiend.

    c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]

Origin

From whelk + -ed.

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