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whitret en · NOUN

Etymology

Apparently from white + rat.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A weasel or stoat.
   • But even so he was gey slow to get on with the courting and just hung around Kirsty like a futret round a trap with a bit of meat in it, not sure if the meat was worth the risk […]. 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21:
   • We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us. 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

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