wherrit
Britishverb
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to worry or cause to worry
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(intr) to complain or moan
Etymology
Origin of wherrit
perhaps from thwert, obsolete variant of thwart ; compare worrit
Example Sentences
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You see I don’t like to wherrit people with my old stories; but when I can get any one to listen I du like to talk a bit.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
And don’t you wherrit about your lodgings, if you ’re short of cash.
From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
I don’t want the poor fellow to have aught to wherrit him.
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison
De doctor say de ku’nel ’ud do fus-class ef he only would n’t wherrit so, but he do nothin’ but toss an’ act rambunctious, an’ dat keep de wound fretted an’ him feverish.”
From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
“Not me, sir, and you needn’t wherrit about what to do wi’ me.
From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Stanley L. Wood
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