werrit

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verb

To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbwerrit (third-person singular simple present werrits, present participle werriting, simple past and past participle werrited)

present singular third person werrits · participle present werriting · participle past werrited · past werrited

  1. To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.

    I can't see it, says he, and he sets to werriting and haggling about it, and goes and tells everybody, as what I finds ain't there, and what he finds is, and that's what no tradesman will stand.

    1863, Owen v. Huxley (The Huxley Files)

Origin

Unknown; used since at least the 1860s across England.

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