Meanings
present singular third person werrits · participle present werriting · participle past werrited · past werrited
- 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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werrit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/werrit
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