Meanings
comparative more wrenchy · superlative most wrenchy
- Indicative of wrenching
Quill turned a key with a loud, wrenchy sound and dragged the door open.
1981, Manly Wade Wellman, The lost and the lurking, page 1231 more example
Gents, that was sure the zeal distress, nothing soft and sloppy, but hard, wrenchy, deep ones, like you hear at a melodrayma^([sic]).
1904, McClure's Magazine, volume 24, page 66
Origin
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