whitret
English
Alternative forms
- futret, whitterick, whittret
Etymology
Apparently from white + rat.
Noun
whitret (plural whitrets)
- (Scotland, UK dialect) A weasel or stoat.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:
- We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 21:
- But even so he was gey slow to get on with the courting and just hung around Kirsty like a futret round a trap with a bit of meat in it, not sure if the meat was worth the risk […].
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Anagrams
- whitter, writeth