wurly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted.

   “Wurlie, 1. Contemptibly puny, or small in size; as "a wurlie bodie," an ill-grown person, Fife, Loth.”

2. sıfat gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.

   “Wurlie, […] 2. Rough, knotted; as, "a wurlie rung," a knotted stick, S. It is applied to a stick that is distorted, Lanarks. As this sense, however, is considerably remote from the other, the term may have had a different origin. 3. Wrinkled, applied to a person; as, a wurly body, Lanarks.”

3. isim Alternative spelling of wurley.

   “Poor [William John] Wills's remains we found lying in the wurly in which he died, and where [John] King, after his return from seeking the natives, had buried him with sand and rushes.”