Meanings
adjectivewrynecked (comparative more wrynecked, superlative most wrynecked)
comparative more wrynecked · superlative most wrynecked
- archaictorticollic
“Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”
1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 1231 more example
In the thick of these scents and sounds [...] reclined Captain John Barker—a little wry-necked gentleman, with a prodigious hump between his shoulders, and legs that dangled two inches off the floor.
1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions
Origin
Translations
Irish cam-mhuineálach
- cam-mhuineálachhaving a twisted or distorted neck
Māori pane hapa
- pane hapahaving a twisted or distorted neck
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