wherret

Alternative forms

• whirrit

Etymology

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative. See whirr.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛɹɪt/

Noun

wherret (plural wherrets)

1. (now regional) A blow, especially on the face. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , II.31:

     I would rather perswade a man, though somewhat out of season, to give his boy a wherret on the eare, than to dissemble this wise, sterne or severe countenance, to vex and fret his minde.

Verb

wherret (third-person singular simple present wherrets, present participle wherreting, simple past and past participle wherreted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hurry; to trouble; to tease.
   • Bickerstaff, Love in a Village (act 1, scene 5)

     Find some other road; can't you; and don't keep wherreting me with your nonsense.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To box (somebody) on the ear; to strike on the ear.

   to wherret a child

Anagrams

• rethrew