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werrit

werrit verb: to worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.

Verb

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

Forms of werrit

third-person singular presentwerrits
present participlewerriting
past participlewerrited
pastwerrited

Origin of werrit

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

Questions about werrit

What does werrit mean?
Werrit means to worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.
What part of speech is werrit?
Werrit is a verb.
What is the past tense of werrit?
The past tense of werrit is werrited.

Words near werrit in the dictionary

  1. Werrimull
  2. Werrington
  3. Werrington County
  4. Werrington Downs
  5. Werris Creek
  6. werrit
  7. Werriwa
  8. werry
  9. wers
  10. Wersching
  11. Werschings

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