v. dial. [Possibly local form of thwert, THWART v. Cf. dial. whart and whartle (beside thwartle, thurtle). See WERRIT.] trans. To tease, pester, annoy.
1762. Bickerstaff, Love in Village, I. ix. (1763), 17. Find some other road, can’t you? and dont keep wherreting me with your nonsense.
1767. Woman of Fashion, I. 35. What the Dickens! Must I be wherretted with your Advice too?
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., Wherrited, teazed.
1888. Fenn, Dick o’ the Fens, xxi. With … the missus a-nigh wherritted to death wi’ trouble.
