wry

• adj. 斜めに；ねじれた；曲がった
• vt.ねじれる；歪む
• vi.ねじれる；歪む

PIE*werの「曲げる」「回す」が語源で、語源的にはwring、wriggleと同じ。

wry

wry: [16] Wry means literally ‘twisted’ (many other English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist and writhe, share the same basic meaning). It comes from the now obsolete verb wry ‘deviate, twist’, which was descended from Old English wrīgian ‘turn, tend in a particular direction’. Wriggle [15] is probably related.
=> wriggle

wry (adj.)

1520s, "distorted, somewhat twisted to one side," from obsolete verb wry "to contort, to twist or turn," from Old English wrigian "to turn, bend, move, go," from Proto-Germanic *wrig- (cognates: Old Frisian wrigia "to bend," Middle Low German wrich "turned, twisted"), from PIE *wreik- "to turn" (cognates: Greek rhoikos "crooked," Lithuanian raisas "paralysed"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Of words, thoughts, etc., from 1590s. The original sense is preserved in awry.

1. There is a wry sense of humour in his work.

彼の作品は皮肉なユーモアを持っている。

2.She cast a wry glance in her grandmother 's direction.

彼女はおばあさんに仕方なくにらみつけた。

3.This book is suffused with Shaw 's characteristic wry Irish humour.

バーナード?ショー独自のアイルランド流ユーモアと皮肉が詰まっている。

4.Antony 's wry smile disconcerted Sutcliffe.

アンソニーの怪笑いにサクリフは戸惑った。

5.Matthew allowed himself a wry smile.

マシューは思わず苦笑いした。