"wurlie" meaning in English

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wurlier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more wurlie",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wurliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wurlie",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "extra": "derisorily small",
          "word": "wurly"
        }
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        "Alternative spelling of wurly (“derisorily small”)."
      ],
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          "wurly#English"
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        "(Scotland) Alternative spelling of wurly (“derisorily small”)."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "sense": "derisorily small",
          "word": "dinky"
        }
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled."
      ],
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        ],
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          "knotted",
          "knotted#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "wizened",
          "wizened#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "wrinkled",
          "wrinkled#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
          "word": "gnarly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
          "word": "knobbly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
          "word": "knobby"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
          "word": "knotty"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "11 89",
          "sense": "wizened, wrinkled",
          "word": "bewrinkled"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "petty"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "puny"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "small"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tiny"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "rugose"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wrinkly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wrinkled"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wurlie"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wurlies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1846, E. Lloyd, “Biographical Sketch”, in A Visit to the Antipodes: With Some Reminiscences of a Sojourn in Australia, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill, →OCLC, page 165",
          "text": "But latterly they came in good numbers, and commenced a nightly system of annoyance by dancing their corroberies:[…]. Finding remonstrance of no avail, one evening, when they were all seated quietly at the wurlie [footnote: Encampment.], I fired a charge of small shot into the midst of them, and retired to the hut: in the morning they had all disappeared.",
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        "Alternative spelling of wurley."
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  "word": "wurlie"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wurlier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more wurlie",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wurliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wurlie",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "wurly"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of wurly (“derisorily small”)."
      ],
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        "(Scotland) Alternative spelling of wurly (“derisorily small”)."
      ],
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    },
    {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled."
      ],
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          "gnarled",
          "gnarled#Adjective"
        ],
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          "knotted",
          "knotted#Adjective"
        ],
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          "wizened",
          "wizened#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "wrinkled",
          "wrinkled#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled."
      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "sense": "derisorily small",
      "word": "dinky"
    },
    {
      "word": "petty"
    },
    {
      "word": "puny"
    },
    {
      "word": "small"
    },
    {
      "word": "tiny"
    },
    {
      "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
      "word": "gnarly"
    },
    {
      "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
      "word": "knobbly"
    },
    {
      "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
      "word": "knobby"
    },
    {
      "sense": "gnarled, knotted",
      "word": "knotty"
    },
    {
      "sense": "wizened, wrinkled",
      "word": "bewrinkled"
    },
    {
      "word": "rugose"
    },
    {
      "word": "wrinkly"
    },
    {
      "word": "wrinkled"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wurlie"
}

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          "ref": "1846, E. Lloyd, “Biographical Sketch”, in A Visit to the Antipodes: With Some Reminiscences of a Sojourn in Australia, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill, →OCLC, page 165",
          "text": "But latterly they came in good numbers, and commenced a nightly system of annoyance by dancing their corroberies:[…]. Finding remonstrance of no avail, one evening, when they were all seated quietly at the wurlie [footnote: Encampment.], I fired a charge of small shot into the midst of them, and retired to the hut: in the morning they had all disappeared.",
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