worrel
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Noun[edit]
worrel (plural worrels)
- Obsolete form of worral (“monitor lizard”).
- 1785, William Frederick Martyn, The Geographical Magazine; or, a New, Copious, Compleat, and Universal System of Geography, page 639:
- The rat, called ichneumon, which has been fabled to destroy the crocodile, by leaping down it's throat and gnawing through it's belly; the cameleon; and the worrel, which is said to be affected by music; all are natives of Egypt.