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  • noun Plural form of wort.

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Examples

  • We probably have the same level of worry-worts who run to the doctor every time they get a sniffle as we did 40 years ago just like we have some people who never go to the doctor even though it would cost them nothing.

    Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Currants and berries all liquefying dressed drop the digging drilling whir whir onanism she says sea shells half a pound coming through tis me tis me wer'e cool slanging sling and other verse wise words worts an 'all come on and cummerbund me baby!

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Let's get united and save the country of four more years of the worts goverment ever

    Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment 2008

  • However, I think the brewers who dilute high-gravity worts have figured out how to make the changes either insignificant or nonexistent.

    Hey Barkeep! Have You Heard Of This High-Gravity Brewing Thing? 2009

  • She's bright, telegenic, and conducts one hell of an interview (ex., that Shrum idiot), but her worry worts are the size of baseballs.

    New Pew Poll Predicts Obama Will Win 52%-46% 2009

  • However, I think the brewers who dilute high-gravity worts have figured out how to make the changes either insignificant or nonexistent.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Goverments and multilateral institutions such as ADB are dishing out hundreds of billions of dollars, as they to restore economic growth in the face of what many claim is the worts global recession since the 1930s.

    United Nation calls for Asia trade push 2009

  • Oops -- shoulda been 'warts' instead of 'worts', senior moment.

    New Pew Poll Predicts Obama Will Win 52%-46% 2009

  • As does the acceptance that this is who you are – worry worts and all.

    Served with whine | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Finally, we have a cabal of policymakers who are ignoring the latest thinking in this critical policy area, closing its ears to calls to establish a strong innovation infrastructure which can change the business fortunes of Wales and, worts of all, adopting a 'safety first mentality which is driving innovators away.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

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