Whitret

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A weasel or stoat. Scotland, UK, dialectal

    "We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us."

Example

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"We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us."

Etymology

Apparently from white + rat.

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