cryey

comparative cryier · superlative cryiest · alternative criey

1. rareInclined to cry; tearful.

   S'pose you had n't ever in all your hull life been called “my dear;” and you was all kind of shakin' and chokin' and cryey, and glad and sorry to once with hearin' it, could you go and spile it right straight off by ownin' up you had n't no claim to it?

   1892, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Aunt Liefy, New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., page 26

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   After a while they cried and laughed, and cried some more, and it was about as sensible as what a flock of geese say when they are let out of the barn and start for the meadow in the morning. Then father, all laughy and criey, said: “Thank God! Oh, thank God, the girl loves the home we have made for her!”

   1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, Laddie: A True Blue Story, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, pages 176–177

   Synonyms: crysome, larmoyant, teary, crysome, lachrymate, lachrymose, larmoyant, maudlin