wrizzledadj.
/ˈrɪz(ə)ld/ Now dialect.
Marked with creases, wrinkles, or corrugations; wrinkled, shrivelled. The reading wrizled in Shakespeare 1 Henry VI, ii. iii. 23 (where the authoritative texts have writhled) is due to Hanmer, 1744.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased
rivelledlOE
hirpleda1400
runkleda1400
rimpleda1425
wrimpledc1430
crimpled1440
frumpledc1440
runkle?1440
ruscledc1440
crumple1523
wrinkled?1523
creased1545
pursy1552
shrivelled1565
wrinkly1573
crumpled1577
ruffed1578
scrimpledc1590
wrizzled1590
wimpled1599
rucked1600
puckered1606
cappard1608
wrinkleful1608
plighty1615
yfrouncta1643
puggered1653
caperated1657
wreathed1657
pursed1676
crinkly1750
runkly1772
wrinkling1791
ruckya1825
puckery1830
creasy1858
seamy1874
crinkle1886
kinkled1890
bumfled1943
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H4v Her wrizled skin as rough, as maple rind, So scabby was, that [etc.].
a1657 H. Cholmley Mem. (1870) 32 A wristled [finger] nail, as if it had been crushed.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea iv. 49 They look as awkward and wrisled as an old Company of Spaniards.
1708 J. Gay On Wine 9 Youthful fires..paint with ruddy hue His wrizzled Visage.
1777 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) A wrizled apple, a wrizled old woman.
1873–1898 in Somerset and n. Yorks. glossaries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.1590