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whitret, whitterick Sc. and dial.|ˈhwɪtrɪt|, |ˈhwɪtərɪk|
Forms: α. 5 whytrate, (-ratche), whitratt, whytrat, Sc. quhitrat, 5, 9 whitrat, 6 Sc. quhittrat, quhitred, fittret, quhittret, 7–8 whitred, 7, 9 whittret, 8–9 whiteret, 9 whitteret, whittrit, (whutthroat), 8– whitret. β. 8–9 whitrick, 9 whitrack, (w(h)utterick, -ock, whuttorock), whittrick, whitterick. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict.)
[The earliest known forms suggest a compound of white a. and rat n.; the types whitret, whitred, whitrick exemplify Sc. tendency to modify the sounds of final syllables.]
A weasel; also, a stoat.
αc1440Promp. Parv. 525/2 Whytrate (K. whitratt, P. whytratche). c1480Henryson Trial of Fox 116 (Harl. MS.) The quhuirand quhitret with the quhasill went. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Hunting f iiij b, The Graye, the Fox, the Squyrell, the whitrat, the Sot, and the Pulcatte. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xxxiii, Martrikis, bevers, quhitredis, and toddis. 1590J. Burel in Watson Coll. Sc. Poems ii. (1709) 21 The Fumart and the Fittret straue, The deip and howest hole to haue. Ibid. 22 Out come the Quhittret. 1639Sir R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earld. Sutherld. (1813) 3 Brocks, skuyrrells, whittrets, weasels, otters. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) p. xi, As harmless as a whitred without teeth. 1684Sibbald Scotia Illustr. II. ii. 11 Mustela vulgaris ea est, quæ Whitred nostratibus dicitur. 1790Alex. Wilson Disconsolate Wren Poet. Wks. (1846) 96 Ony whitret's direfu' jaws. 1815Scott Guy M. xxiii, We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 275 The whut-throat or weazle, and the hoodie, have often bloody wars with other. 1880Fraser's Mag. May 646 When a whitret or a fox came prowling past.
βc1800R. Jamieson's Pop. Ball. (1806) I. 294 Her minnie had hain'd the warl, And the whitrack-skin had routh. 1802G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry 455 The weazle (provincially whitrick). 1861Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 145 He yokes him fairly wi' his teeth As Brush wad dune a whitterick. |