werrit
English edit
Etymology edit
Unknown; used since at least the 1860s across England.
Verb edit
werrit (third-person singular simple present werrits, present participle werriting, simple past and past participle werrited)
- [[To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.|To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.]]
- 1863, Owen v. Huxley (The Huxley Files)[1]:
- I can't see it, says he, and he sets to werriting and haggling about it, and goes and tells everybody, as what I finds ain't there, and what he finds is, and that's what no tradesman will stand.