†(f) †to put water in a person's worts: to make things unpleasant for a person. Cf. to cast (something) in a person's worts at wortn.2 Phrases 1. Obsolete. rare.
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1579 S. GossonApol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 81v They haue..threatned highly, too put water in my woortes, whensoeuer they catche me.