Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See whirret.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To hurry; to trouble; to tease.
- v. obsolete To box (somebody) on the ear; to strike on the ear.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To hurry; to trouble; to tease.
- v. obsolete To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box (the ear).
- n. obsolete A box on the ear.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown; perhaps imitative. See whirr. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Whigs are in a rage about the peace; but we'll wherret [9] them, I warrant, boys.”
“The Whigs are in a rage about the peace; but we’ll wherret [9] them, I warrant, boys.”
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
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