Etymology

spurry

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Today it means: Any of several European annual herbs of the genus Spergula. Full definition →

Old French spurrie ← Latin spergula
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromspergula
  2. Old French · derived fromspurrie
  3. English todayspurry

Dutch or Old French spurrie; compare German Spergel, New Latin spergula.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.