warsle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of warsle
1300–50; Middle English; Old English *wǣrstlian, metathetic variant (compare wǣrstlīc of wrestling) of wrǣstlian to wrestle
Example Sentences
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Yes, sir, fallen from t’ ranks of honest, hard-working men, and taen to warse ways.”
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Her mither died when she was young, Which gave her cause to make great moan; Her father married the warse woman That ever lived in Christendom.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
Boh a warse offender than either on us stonds afore yo.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
I hae not indeed hid the Lord's talent in a napkin, but I hae done a warse thing; I hae been trading wi' it for my ain proper advantage.
From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
She served her well wi' foot and hand, In everything that, she could dee; But her stepmither hated her warse and warse, And a powerful wicked witch was she.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
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