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Quotation dates: 1881
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¶JURRIE-WORRIEIN', vbl.n. The growling snarling sound made by a dog when worrying anything.Lnk. 1881 A. Wardrop Poems 13:
O'd, but I was in a fix, between jurrie-worriein' an' Johnnie roarin' oot like a bear, “What the mischief are ye daein' there, ye sneekin' houn', ye?”
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