dracarys

D2R1A1C3A1R1Y4S1

interjection

Used to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

interjection
  1. 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 37
    2 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 page

    They'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
verbdracarys (third-person singular simple present dracaryses, present participle dracarysing, simple past and past participle dracarysed)

present singular third person dracaryses · participle present dracarysing · participle past dracarysed · past dracarysed

  1. 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 90
    2 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 35

    On 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

  1. Latindracō“dragon”
  2. High Valyriandracarys
  3. 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”).

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

dracarys. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dracarys

MLA

“dracarys.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dracarys. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dracarys,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dracarys.

Source: dracarys on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.