Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Formed like a whelk; hence, knobby; rounded.
  • Abounding in whelks, pustules, or blisters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.
  • adjective Shelly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances.
  • adjective streaked; striated

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

whelk +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Pluck, unmoved in humor by the coolness of the drench, stood sunk to his chin in the snow, and laughed as heartily as any of them, his shining bald pate and whelky red face streaming with moisture and shaking with merriment.

    Margaret 1851

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