Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insipid; tasteless; delicate; having a pale and sickly look.
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Examples
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Buttr dan icheez wit no wai tu scratchh- lik wen dey put huuuggge hed thingz on dem kittehs an goggies sew them can no wersh.
I hope she doesn’t start - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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A quarter mile doon, the wersh blinterin sun forced itsel in throu the UV filter gless at the corridor heid, illuminatin the faces an keek panels o the first fifty Omegas.
Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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A quarter mile doon, the wersh blinterin sun forced itsel in throu the UV filter gless at the corridor heid, illuminatin the faces an keek panels o the first fifty Omegas.
Links purge Ray Girvan 2004
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It is very unsavory (Scottice: wersh); and no matter how much one may eat, two hours afterward he is as hungry as ever.
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Marriage, they say, makes the sweetest woman wersh.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Betterton is bitter bad; Ogle, "_wersh_ as cauld parritch without sawte!"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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The soul sickens at the monotonous sweetness of such a wersh existence.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Various
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He was a wersh-lookin 'sowl, and I couldna understand the half o' his English tongue. '
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He was a wersh-lookin 'sowl, and I couldna understand the half o' his English tongue. '
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907
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Here is come a son of Mrs. Strachey's, to be talked to; wersh enough, but there is no help for it.
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