worrit

noun

1. (countable, dialectal, nonstandard, uncountable)Worry; anxiety.

   “"Where have you been, you young monkey?" said Mrs. Joe, stamping her foot. "Tell me directly what you’ve been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I’d have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."”

   “Them hunting and fishing things, if it was nothing else, puts Mr. Saunders and John in a continual worrit, special when there's gentlemen coming that don't bring a vally — and half the gentlemen here don't.”

2. (countable, dialectal, nonstandard, uncountable)One who worries excessively or unnecessarily.

verb

1. (dialectal, nonstandard, transitive)To cause (someone) to be anxious; to worry.

   ““Yes; don't worrit your poor mother,” said Mrs. Sanders. “She's quite enough to worrit her, as it is, without you, Tommy,” said Mrs. Cluppins, with sympathising resignation.”

   “'Och, it's you, is it, Mr Kilmartin? Wherever have ye been? The young lady was fair worrit to death when ye didna come home.'”

   “I dinna wish to worrit myself about ye running off to the nunnery or wi' another man.”

2. (dialectal, intransitive, nonstandard)To be anxious; to worry.

   “Well Sir, would you believe it, there’s that in Mr Pontifex’s face which is just like young Watkins; he looks that worrited and scrunched up at times, but it’s never for the same reason, […]”

   “I'd best be turning for home. Mrs. Maggot will be worriting with the night getting thick.”

adj

1. (dialectal, nonstandard)Worried.

   “An' every day Chinook Bill got more an' more worrit an' turrible reticent.”

   “'She's gey sickly, but more worrit that she should be sick at all than by whatever it is itself.'”

   ““I don' think Dallen'd let me break m'neck,” Mags pointed out. “I'd be more worrit about them as is on foot or reg'lar horses.””