worricow

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Hear ye that, ye worricow? '

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  1. A hobgoblin; the devil. Worricows and gyre-carlins that haunted about the auld wa's at e'en. Scott, Antiquary, xxi.
  2. Any frightful object; an ugly, awkward-looking person; a fright; a bugbear; a scarecrow. What a worricrow the man doth look! Naylor, Reynard the Fox, 39. (Davies.) [Scotch in both uses.]

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  • Hear ye that, ye worricow? ' —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02
  • 'My leddy never bade ye run off mair like a wild worricow than a general officer's daughter, Miss Mysie. —  The Two Sides of the Shield
  • worricow, a hobgoblin. —  Guy Mannering — Complete
  • Hoff, howff, haaf, and haven are all modifications of the same word. wheen, a few. whigging, jogging. whiles, sometimes. whilk, which. whin, a few. whinger, a kind of knife, a hanger. whistle, give information against one. whittret, a weasel. wi ', with. win, get. witters, the barbs of the spear. woo', wool. woodie, wuddie, a rope, a halter, the gallows. worricow, a hobgoblin. wots na, does not know. wrang, wrong. wrang side of the blanket, illegitimate. writer, an attorney. wuddie, a rope, the gallows. wuss, wish. yaffing, chattering, barking. yet, yere, your. yont, beyond. —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02
  • 'I fell out with a loon there, one of those Janissaries that gang hectoring aboot as though the world were not gude enough for them, and if I hadna made the best of my way out of the toon, my pow wad be a worricow on the wa's of the tower.' —  A Modern Telemachus
 

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  1. Scots, also spelled worrycow and wirrycow; from worry + cow, a goblin, scarecrow.
 

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