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whelked

[ welkt, hwelkt ]

adjective

  1. ridged like the shell of a snail:

    a whelked horn.



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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of whelked1

First recorded in 1550鈥60; whelk 1 + -ed 3
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Whelked, ridged like a whelk; Whel鈥瞜y, knobby, rounded.

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And when Edgar is trying to persuade the blind Gloucester that he has in reality cast himself over the cliff, he describes the being from whom he is supposed to have just parted, thus:鈥 聽聽聽聽"As I stood here below, methought his eyes 聽聽聽聽Were two full moons: he had a thousand noses; 聽聽聽聽Horns whelked and wav猫d like the enridg猫d sea: 聽聽聽聽It was some fiend."

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