worrier
Noun
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Noun
worrier (plural worriers)
- A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily.
- You are such a worrier! I'm sure everything will turn out all right.
- A person who causes worry in others.
- An animal that seizes or shakes another by the throat.
- 1886, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (volume 54, page 401)
- The person owning a dog which had destroyed sheep could be made to pay for the damage; but the Court should also have an undoubted power to order incurable sheep-worriers to be destroyed.
- 1886, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (volume 54, page 401)
- (one who worries a great deal) bundle of nerves, worrywart; see also Thesaurus:worrier
- (one who causes worry in others)
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