different between worrit vs forrit

English

Etymology

Dialectal alteration of worry, 19th c.

Noun

worrit (countable and uncountable, plural worrits)

1. (dialect, nonstandard) Worry; anxiety.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Works of Charles Dickens Household Edition: Great Expectations, Volume 1, James G. Gregory, page 14,

     "Where have you been, you young monkry?" said Mrs. Joe, stamping her foot. "Tell me directly what you’ve been doing to wear me away with feet and fright and worrit, or I’d have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."

   • 1891, Margaret Oliphant, The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent, 2009, page 113,

     Them hunting and fishing things, if it was nothing else, puts Mr. Saunders and John in a continual worrit, special when there's gentlemen coming that don't bring a vally — and half the gentlemen here don't.

2. (dialect, nonstandard) One who worries excessively or unnecessarily.

Verb

worrit (third-person singular simple present worrits, present participle worriting, simple past and past participle worrited or worrit)

1. (dialect, nonstandard, intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     I'd best be turning for home. Mrs. Maggot will be worriting with the night getting thick.

2. (dialect, nonstandard, transitive) To worry (someone); to cause to be anxious.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Easyread Comfort Edition, 2008, page 189,

     'Yes; don't worrit your poor mother,' said Mrs. Sanders.

     'She's quite enough to worrit her, as it is, without you, Tommy,' said Mrs. Cluppins, with sympathising resignation.

   • 1940, Hammond Innes, The Trojan Horse, 2012, unnumbered page,

     'Och, it's you, is it, Mr Kilmartin? Wherever have ye been? The young lady was fair worrit to death when ye didna come home.'

   • 2010, Amanda Forester, The Highlander's Sword, page 169,

     I dinna wish to worrit myself about ye running off to the nunnery or wi' another man.

Adjective

worrit (comparative more worrit, superlative most worrit)

1. (dialect, nonstandard) Worried.
   • 1906, Robert Love Taylor, John Trotwood Moore, Thornwell Jacobs (editors), The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 641,

     An' every day Chinook Bill got more an' more worrit an' turrible reticent.

   • 1926, Marshall Newton Goold, Heather Heretics, page 204,

     'She's gey sickly, but more worrit that she should be sick at all than by whatever it is itself.'

   • 2010, Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues, 2012, unnumbered page,

     “I don' think Dallen'd let me break m'neck,” Mags pointed out. “I'd be more worrit about them as is on foot or reg'lar horses.”

English

Adverb

forrit (not comparable)

1. (Scotland) Forwards, forward.
   • 1817, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, 1833, page 16,

     I was just standin looking about me amang the lang hags that lead out frae the head o' the North Grain, and considering what could be wort of a' the sheep, when I noticed my dog, Reaver, gaun coursing away forrit as he had been setting a fox.

   • 1828, "Mansie Wauch" (David Macbeth Moir), The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, page 132,

     All o' a sudden I sees a light coming dancing forrit amang the trees; and my hair began to stand up on end. Then, in the next moment, save us a'! I sees anither light, and forrit, forrit they baith cam, like the een of some great fiery monster, let loose frae the pit o' darkness by its maister, to seek whom it might devour.

   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men & Other Stories, 2006, page 67,

     Lang or that, she had had a wean to a dragoon; she hadnae come forrit^{[presented as a communicant]} for maybe thretty year; and bairns had seen her mumblin' to hersel' up on Key's Loan in the gloamin', whilk was an unco time an' place for a God-fearin' woman.

Faroese

Noun

forrit n (genitive singular forrits, plural forrit)

1. (computing) program

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From for- (“pre-, pro-”) +? rit (“writ, writing”). Calque of English program, which is derived from Ancient Greek ??? (pró, “before”) +? ?????? (grámma, “writing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r.r?(?)t/
• Rhymes: -?r??t

Noun

forrit n (genitive singular forrits, nominative plural forrit)

1. (computing) program, application, application program

Declension

Synonyms

• (program): tölvuforrit

Derived terms