wear|ish

wear|ish
wear|ish «WAIR ihsh, WIHR-», adjective. Dialect.
2. a) sickly; feeble. b) wizened; shriveled. Also, wersh.
[origin uncertain. Compare Dutch wars disgusted, averse.]

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