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▪ I. worrit, n. colloq.|ˈwʌrɪt|
Also 9 -et.
[f. the vb.]
A state of worry or mental distress; a fretting care or anxiety. Also, a person that worries others or himself.
1838Dickens O. Twist xvii, ‘A porochial life, ma'am,’ continued Mr. Bumble,..‘is a life of worrit, and vexation, and hardihood.’ 1844in Ashwell Life Bp. Wilberforce (1880) I. vi. 221 Assuaging any and every worret, temporal and spiritual. 1848Dickens Dombey xxiii, ‘Mrs. Richards's eldest, Miss!’ said Susan, ‘and the worrit of Mrs. Richards's life!’ 1861Calverley Charades i, Endless cares and endless worrits, well I knows it, has a wife. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkback 68 The young men did not mind strictness, but they would not stand worrying... B was as kindly and good-natured as possible, but he was a ‘worrit.’
▪ II. worrit, v. colloq.|ˈwʌrɪt|
Also 9 -et.
[App. a vulgar alteration of worry v. Cf. wherrit, werrit.]
1. trans. To worry, distress, vex, pester.
1818Lamb Let. to Mrs. Wordsworth 18 Feb., These pests worrit me at business. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvi, ‘Don't worrit your poor mother,’ said Mrs. Sanders. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lviii, Lord bless us, how she did use to worret us at Sunday-school. 1854W. Collins Hide & Seek ii. xiv. (1904) 313 Why worrit yourself about finding Arthur Carr at all? 1869J. R. Green Lett. (1901) iii. 235, I have been worriting myself these last days with those Welsh chaps and our early history.
b. with advb. extension.
1854W. Collins Hide & Seek ii. x. (1904) 259 It don't do me no good: it only worrits me into a perspiration. 1855Trollope Warden viii. 116 Sir Abraham won't get papa another income when he has been worreted out of the hospital. 1871Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxvi. II. 66 It will worret you to death, Lucy; that I can see.
2. intr. To give way to worry; to experience or display mental disquietude, impatience, etc.
1854W. Collins Hide & Seek ii. xiv. (1904) 317 It was how to track the man as was Mary's death, that I puzzled and worrited about in my head, at that time. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago viii. (1881) 127 He..snaps, and worrits, and won't speak to her sometimes for a whole morning. 1868G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose vii, ‘Look alive, girl! Come—bustle, bustle! It's gone six o'clock.’ ‘Why, father, how you keep on worriting!’
Hence ˈworriting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1857Dickens Dorrit i. xxiii, There would be none of this *worriting and wearing.
1845G. E. Jewsbury Zoe I. 33 [He] is just the naughtiest and most *worritting boy I ever saw. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xi. 194 Here and there some..worriting, energizing mortal..gets command of a boat. 1871Smiles Character viii. 219 Worreting, petty, and self-tormenting cares. |