writhy

comparative more writhy · superlative most writhy

1. Characterized by or prone to writhing.

   Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research.

   1743, Robert Blair, The Grave

   2 more examples

   When we caught a writhy, stunted fish, wide-eyed, mouthing silence, which slipped out of our hands, we picked it up, threw it back to its mud-blind home.

   2003, Richard Rooke, Ready to Dance and Other Poems

   Maud's dances were termed “wiggly, writhy, squirmy”—rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.

   2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome