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  • noun Plural form of worrit.

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Examples

  • It strikes me as 'ow it' ud be the proper thing for you to draw your jib, douse the glim, an 'turn in, seein' as 'ow it worrits you.

    THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

  • Pantechniconloads of beautiful girls fling themselves at the main guy, Rand, and he worrits and ponders which of them, or which several of them, he fancies the most.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • Pantechniconloads of beautiful girls fling themselves at the main guy, Rand, and he worrits and ponders which of them, or which several of them, he fancies the most.

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 5: The Fires of Heaven (1993) Adam Roberts 2010

  • In their new books they have both (Grass more strikingly than Böll) turned into what in my childhood were called 'worrits.'

    Hangovers Enright, D.J. 1982

  • However, these are at least distinguished worrits.

    Hangovers Enright, D.J. 1982

  • I'm worrited about your life because it worrits Maggie, but I'm none worrited that bad I'll see my business suffer for the sake of you.

    Hobson's Choice Harold Brighouse 1920

  • There's only one thing worrits me a bit: I wish the lad had

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • It strikes me as 'ow it' ud be the proper thing for you to draw your jib, douse the glim, an 'turn in, seein' as 'ow it worrits you.

    The Man With the Gash 1901

  • He does prounce on a mail bag one evenin 'when the post-master ain't lookin', an 'shore rends an' worrits them letters scand'lous.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • I have not the most remote notion what trouble it can be that worrits a poor little lass, but, such as it is,

    Girls of the Forest L. T. Meade 1884

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