wherret

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UK/ˈwɛɹɪt/

noun

A blow, especially on the face.

“to wherret a child”

First used 16th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounwherret (plural wherrets)

plural wherrets · alternative whirrit · alternative worrit

  1. regionalA blow, especially on the face.First known use 16th c.

    I would rather perswade a man, though somewhat out of season, to give his boy a wherret on the eare, than to dissemble this wise, sterne or severe countenance, to vex and fret his minde.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
verbwherret (third-person singular simple present wherrets, present participle wherreting, simple past and past participle wherreted)

present singular third person wherrets · participle present wherreting · participle past wherreted · past wherreted · alternative whirrit · alternative worrit

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo hurry; to trouble; to tease.

    Find some other road; can't you; and don't keep wherreting me with your nonsense.

    1762, Isaac Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village (act 1, scene 5)
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo box (somebody) on the ear; to strike on the ear.

    to wherret a child

Origin

Unknown; perhaps imitative. See whirr.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Werther
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APA

wherret. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wherret

MLA

“wherret.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wherret. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wherret,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wherret.

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