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worret

worret is the alternative form of worrit.

Meaning of worrit

Noun

worrit (countable and uncountable, plural worrits)

  1. (dialectal, nonstandard) Worry; anxiety.
    • "Where have you been, you young monkey?" said Mrs. Joe, stamping her foot. "Tell me directly what you’ve been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I’d have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 15
  2. (dialectal, nonstandard) One who worries excessively or unnecessarily.

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Forms of worret

Noun
pluralworrets
Verb
third-person singular presentworrets
present participleworreting
past participleworreted
pastworreted

Questions about worret

What is worret the alternative form of?
Worret is the alternative form of worrit.

Words near worret in the dictionary

  1. Worralls
  2. worrals
  3. worrel
  4. Worrell
  5. worrels
  6. worret
  7. worreted
  8. worreting
  9. worrets
  10. worriable
  11. worricow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worret (page history and authors); worrit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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