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worrier|ˈwʌrɪə(r)|
Forms: 6 Sc. wirrear, -iare, 7 -ier; 6 wurrier, Sc. worriar, 7– worrier.
[f. worry v. + -er1.]
1. An animal that kills or injures others by biting and rough treatment. Also fig.
c1536Lyndesay Compl. Bagsche 26 For I haif bene, ay to this hour, Ane wirrear of lamb and hog. 1583Elgin Rec. (New Spalding Club) I. 173 Calling him auld wouff facet theiff carle and worriar of scheip. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall vi. (1833) B 4 b, Diogenes..being admonished that so he should be torne by birds and beasts, did reiyre a taunt, in requyring a cudgell to be coutched beside, whereby to weare his wirriers away. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. 35 Beeing doubtlesse very theeves, robbers, wolves, and worriers of the Flocks. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies iii. §4 (1665) 229 κύνες χθόνιοι terrestrial Dogs (as they called their more material and coarser sort of Dæmons, conceived the Worriers of Souls). 1732Swift Exam. Abuses Dublin 12 Tory Dogs; whereof great Numbers have since been so prudent, as intirely to change their Principles, and are now justly esteemed the best Worriers of their former Friends. 1839Hood To Lady Dep. India 31 Go where the fierce musquito is a worrier. 1862Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 29 The Worrier-Dog—the Cow with Crumpled horn.
†b. jocularly. A swiller of (liquor). Sc. Obs.
1584Leg. Bp. St. Androis 12 Still daylie drinckand or he dyne, A wirriare of the gude sweit wyne.
2. One who harasses or persecutes another.
1712Steele Spect. No. 304 ⁋6 Certain Persons..who by the Strength of their Arms, and Loudness of their Throats, draw off the Regard of all Passengers from your said Petitioners; from which Violence they are distinguished by the Name of the Worriers. 1734Swift Yahoo's Overthrow xi. Wks. 1765 XIII. 291 On this Worrier of Deans whene'er we can hit, We'll shew him the way how to crop and to slit.
3. One who causes distress of mind to another; also, one who gives way to anxiety or mental disquietude.
1891Cent. Dict. 1897Voice (N.Y.) 11 Feb. 3/1 ‘Worry’ is from inside, and the fault of the ‘worrier.’ 1912Sat. Rev. 28 Dec. 802/1 Both brothers write of their mother, an excellent woman but a worrier—of the son she was with and about the son she was absent from. |