whitret

English

Alternative forms

• futret, whitterick, whittret

Etymology

Apparently from white +‎ rat.

Noun

whitret (plural whitrets)

1. (Scotland, UK dialect) A weasel or stoat.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21:

     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 […].

Anagrams

• whitter, writeth