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語源

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative. See whirr.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛɹɪt/

名詞

wherret (複数形 wherrets)

1. (now regional) A blow, especially on the face. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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.