arrey

alternative arré · alternative arre

1. IndiaExpressing surprise or alarm; hey.First known use 19th c.

   The boy screamed, ‘Arre, arre, don't! Don't you dare!’

   2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 26

   3 more examples

   ‘Nay, I cannot move another step,’ he howled. ‘I am old and my turban is lost. Arré! Arré!’

   1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 206

   The dhoti-clad Indian mystic's anger simmered, dangerously close to exploding. 'Arrey! This is just not done in our Indian culture!'

   2007, Sonja Chandrachud, The Potion of Eternity

   'Arrey baba! How much will you study?' Ma strode into my room with a glass of Bournvita.

   2013, Shreya Mathur, But Ira Said

plural Arreys

1. countableuncountableA surname from Catalan.
2. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States.