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wry-mouthed, a.
(stress variable)
[f. wry a. 1. Cf. prec.]
1. Having a wry mouth.
1552Huloet, Wrye mouthed men, miriones. 1604F. T. Case is Altered C ij b, There was an old man..bleer-eied, wry-mouthed, botle nosed, lame-legged. 1616T. Scot Philomythie A 6 b, They..wrie-mouth'd Plaice..did eate. 1618Fletcher Women Pleased iii. ii, A pack of wry⁓mouth'd mackrel Ladies. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 152 Looking asquint, wry-mouth'd, wry-neck'd. 1776Da Costa Elem. Conchol. 210 Buccina Recurvirostra,.. Wry-mouthed Whelks. 1870Rossetti Poems, Guido Cavalcanti xxii, That wry-mouthed minx.
fig.1614J. Taylor (Water-P.) Nipping Abuses L 4, The wri-mouth'd Crittick. 1620Quarles Jonah 1487 Daring Presumption, wry-mouth'd Derision, Damned Apostacie.
2. Marked or characterized by contortion of the mouth. Also transf.
1624Quarles Sion's Elegies iii. 21 What flout, what wry⁓mouth'd scoffe,..Hath scap'd the furie of my Foemans tongue To doe my simple Innocencie wrong? 1635― Embl. v. v. 34 What soul would not be proud Of wry-mouth'd scorns? a1699J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. ccxxviii, What wry-mouth'd play They us'd, their gentle Savior to flout. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 145 A shaggy Tap'stry,..Instructive work! whose wry-mouth'd portraiture Display'd the fates her confessors endure. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) VIII. 59 Lifting up her rolling eyes,..with a wry-mouthed earnestness. |