writher

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noun

One who writhes.

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Meanings

nounwrither (plural writhers)

plural writhers

  1. One who writhes.

    Then, almost at once, imagination begins to people this totally unfamiliar world with highly undesirable denizens — jaguars and other snarling cats, the bushmaster, the fer-de-lance, and other venomous writhers, and poisonous insects […]

    1961, Thomas Harper Goodspeed, Plant Hunters in the Andes, page 335

Origin

From writhe + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

whirret
Cite this entry
APA

writher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/writher

MLA

“writher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/writher. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “writher,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/writher.

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