Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hobgoblin; the devil.
- noun Any frightful object; an ugly, awkward-looking person; a fright; a bugbear; a scarecrow.
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Examples
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'I fell out with a loon there, one of those Janissaries that gang hectoring aboot as though the world were not gude enough for them, and if I hadna made the best of my way out of the toon, my pow wad be a worricow on the wa's of the tower.'
A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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'My leddy never bade ye run off mair like a wild worricow than a general officer's daughter, Miss Mysie.
The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
chelster commented on the word worricow
WUR-i-koo is the pronunciation preferred by Webster's New International, second edition (1934). WUH-ri-kow is the pronunciation preferred by the Oxford English Dictionary. — The Orthoepist
June 9, 2010