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wirrock Sc.|ˈwɪrək|
Also 6 wyrok, virrok, 9 weerock.
[a. early Flem. weerooghe ‘chalaza, chalazion’ (Kilian), f. weer callosity (see warre) + ooghe eye n.1]
A corn on the foot. Also attrib.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxviii. 18 A flyrok, That hes vpoun his feit a wyrok. Ibid. lx. 54 With his wawill-feitt and virrok taiss. 1801Leyden Compl. Scot. Gloss. 380 Virrok [in Dunbar]..signifies a corn, or bony excrescence on the feet. It is in common use, and pronounced wirrok. 1839W. McDowall Poems 154 (E.D.D.) Mary Hay, Wha had a weerock on each tae As big's a plum. |