werrit

Unknown; used since at least the 1860s across England.

werrit (third-person singular simple present werrits, present participle werriting, simple past and past participle werrited)

1. [[To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.|To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.]]
   • 1863, Owen v. Huxley (The Huxley Files)‎:

     I can't see it, says he, and he sets to werriting and haggling about it, and goes and tells everybody, as what I finds ain't there, and what he finds is, and that's what no tradesman will stand.

• rewrit, writer