Word Meanings - WHERRET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To hurry; to trouble; to tease. Bickerstaff. 2. To box on the ear; to strike or box. ; as, to wherret a child.

Related words: (words related to WHERRET)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• HURRY-SKURRY
  Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• WHERRET
  1. To hurry; to trouble; to tease. Bickerstaff. 2. To box on the ear; to strike or box. ; as, to wherret a child.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• HURRY
  haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to 1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak. 2. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action;
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• TROUBLE
  A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant. Syn.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• TEASELING
  The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered