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Worrit  n.  Worry; anxiety. (Illiterate)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Worrit" Quotes from Famous Books



... possible use Reading can be to them but to talk of, might as well have been Ante-Cadmeans born, or have lain sucking out the sense of an Egypt'n. hieroglyph as long as the Pyramids will last before they should find it. These pests worrit me at business and in all its intervals, perplexing my accounts, poisoning my little salutary warming-time at the fire, puzzling my paragraphs if I take a newspaper, cramming in between my own free thoughts and a column of figures which had come to an ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... woman's clothes, spread them for additional warmth upon the poor bed-covering. "Don't you worrit no more about Depper," she said, "Strike me, you're the one that want ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann

... they're on a quaking moss Without a foothold; and find themselves to the neck In Deadman's Flow, before they've floundered far. Rights go for little, in this life: few are worth The risk of losing peace and quiet. You'll have Plenty to worrit, and keep you wakeful, without A pillow stuffed with burrs and briars: so, take An old wife's counsel, daughter: let well alone; And don't go ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

... poor lass; an' it would put her out a deal, for she's a woman of a stern mind towards matteremony. And she'll be noane so strong till summer-weather comes, and I'd be loath to give her aught to worrit hersel' about. So thee and me 'll ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. II • Elizabeth Gaskell

... out from the sinful world. Here all is peas. Here we air brothers and sisters. We don't marry and consekently we hav no domestic difficulties. Husbans don't abooze their wives—wives don't worrit their husbans. There's no children here to worrit us. Nothin to worrit us here. No wicked matrimony here. Would thow like to be ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne

... to yourself at last, dearie, and beginning to worrit the fust thing because all your beautiful long curly hair is cut off! But never mind, chile; it will grow again as pretty as ever all over in shiny leetle rings like a babby's; and I was jest obleeged to crop it off to save ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller



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