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whitret

whitret noun: a weasel or stoat.

Noun

whitret (plural whitrets)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A weasel or stoat.
    • We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
    • But even so he was gey slow to get on with the courting and just hung around Kirsty like a futret round a trap with a bit of meat in it, not sure if the meat was worth the risk […].1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21

Forms of whitret

pluralwhitrets
alternative formfutret
alternative formwhitterick
alternative formwhittret

Origin of whitret

Apparently from white + rat.

Questions about whitret

What does whitret mean?
Whitret means a weasel or stoat.
What part of speech is whitret?
Whitret is a noun.
What is the plural of whitret?
The plural of whitret is whitrets.

Words near whitret in the dictionary

  1. Whitneyan
  2. whitneyite
  3. Whitneyville
  4. Whitoid
  5. whitopia
  6. whitret
  7. whitrets
  8. Whitrigg
  9. whits
  10. Whitsel
  11. Whitsell

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