wery

comparative more wery · superlative most wery

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of very.

   There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!

   1837, William Burton, Burton's comic songster, page 59

   2 more examples

   'Wery,' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a wery bad 'un,' says my father.

   1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 176

   It was jest sich a night as this— wery cold — wery. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's wery cloudy — wery. ... I come and stood on this 'ere wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.

   1844, Lawrence Ladree, Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post, page 25

comparative more wery · superlative most wery

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of very.

   'Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'

   1903, Charles Longman, Longman's magazine, Vol. 41, page 232

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   'Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.

   1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 85

   ... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...

   1897, Walter Rye, The Pickwick Papers, page 144

plural Werys

1. A surname from Dutch.