wrinch

English

Etymology 1

Probably an alteration of wrench.

Verb

wrinch (third-person singular simple present wrinches, present participle wrinching, simple past and past participle wrinched)

1. (Bermuda, intransitive) To complain or grouse about.
   • 2015 May 28, Christopher Famous, “Giving credit where credit is due”, in The Royal Gazette‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

     I write this to say that often, far too often, we wrinch about a business or we wrinch about “Bermudians' poor customer service”. Yet in the midst of the wrinching, we forget to acknowledge when we receive excellent service.

2. (Bermuda, transitive) To scold.
   • 2013 August 26, @latina_xxx, Twitter‎^[2]:

     My daddies wrinching about how all the women in this house have shoppin problems😆.. Noone told u have 3 girls pops!

   • 2022 June 3, @iAmNeilly, Twitter‎^[3]:

     As soon as I got in the chair today, he wrinched me for coming out of character.

Etymology 2

Verb

wrinch (third-person singular simple present wrinches, present participle wrinching, simple past and past participle wrinched)

1. Obsolete form of rinse.

References

• “wrinch”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “wrinch”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.