[f. WORRY v. + -ING2.]
† 1. Given to harrying or raiding. Obs.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., 109. A greater rabble of worrying freebutters.
2. Harassing; distressing to the mind or spirits.
1826. F. Reynolds, Life & Times, I. 212. Your whole conduct is literally worrying and annoying in the extreme.
1834. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, xi. New Mon. Mag., XLII. 470. Whether she would allow me to send her anything to cheer her up after her worrying journey.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., xxxvi. There are few things more worrying than sitting up for somebody, especially if that somebody be at a party. Ibid. (1853), Bleak Ho., vi. Whatever the sound is, it is a worrying sound.
Hence Worryingly adv.
1842. Moore, Mem., VII. 311. The difficulty … still haunts me most worryingly.
