worricow

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noun

An imp or hobgoblin.

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Meanings

nounworricow (plural worricows)

plural worricows · alternative wirricow

  1. ScotlandAn imp or hobgoblin.

    Hout, na! it canna be our commander Monſieur de Champignon, running about in the dark like a worricow!

    1757, [Tobias Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 26
  2. ScotlandAnything frightful or grotesque.

Origin

From worry (“to harass”) + cow.

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