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wirricow

wirricow is the alternative form of worricow.

Meaning of worricow

Noun

worricow (plural worricows)

  1. (Scotland) An 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. (Scotland) Anything frightful or grotesque.

Forms of wirricow

pluralwirricows

Questions about wirricow

What is wirricow the alternative form of?
Wirricow is the alternative form of worricow.

Words near wirricow in the dictionary

  1. Wirralians
  2. wirrasthru
  3. Wirrate
  4. Wirratherie
  5. Wirrathuri
  6. wirricow
  7. wirricows
  8. Wirrimah
  9. Wirrinya
  10. Wirsung
  11. Wirt

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