Meanings
- slanglifestyleUsed to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.
The starter whirls for what seems like 15 seconds and then, Dracarys, the fire spitter behind your head starts howling.
2022 April, Jonny Lieberman, “Attempt To Tame The Most Ferocious Pagani Yet”, in Motor Trend, page 372 more examples
Tiny lines of blue lightning wrapped around the silver rings on my fingers. Hellfire came to me so easily. "Dracarys," murmured Harvey, and shot me a smile. "That's from a TV show. Just trying to be supportive."
2020, Sarah Rees Brennan, Sabrina: Path of Knight, unnumbered pageThey're watching me like they expected me to start yelling “Dracarys” and torching random buildings, even though they've no proof that I did anything wrong and the source of the fire is still under investigation.
2022, E. M. Snow, Malice, unnumbered pages
present singular third person dracaryses · participle present dracarysing · participle past dracarysed · past dracarysed
- slanglifestyleTo burn or destroy.
What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch
2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 902 more examples
It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.
2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.
2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page
Origin
- Latindracō“dragon”
- High Valyriandracarys
- Englishdracarys
Learned borrowing from High Valyrian dracarys. Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in that fictional language featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).
More words from High Valyrian, Latin
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dracarys. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dracarys
“dracarys.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dracarys. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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