surquedry

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noun

Overweening pride; arrogance.

OriginOld French surcuiderie →
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Meanings

nounsurquedry (countable and uncountable, plural surquedries)

plural surquedries · alternative surquedy · alternative surquidry

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableOverweening pride; arrogance.
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    They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371

Origin

  1. Old Frenchsurcuiderie
  2. Englishsurquedry

From Old French surcuiderie.

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APA

surquedry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surquedry

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“surquedry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surquedry. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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