warry

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verb

To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.

OriginMiddle English warrien ← Old English wirġan ← Proto-West Germanic *wargijan →
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Meanings

warry1

verbwarry (third-person singular simple present warries, present participle warrying, simple past and past participle warried)

present singular third person warries · participle present warrying · participle past warried · past warried · alternative wary

  1. archaicdialectaltransitiveTo curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.

warry2

adjectivewarry (comparative warrier, superlative warriest)

comparative warrier · superlative warriest

  1. uncommonWarlike, warrish.

    […] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]

    1604, Alexander Craig, The Poeticall Essayes of Alexander Craige, Scotobritane
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    The woman had a sword by her side […] She looked "very strong and warry and fierce, but not wicked;" that is, not cruel, at all. The old woman had seen the Irish giant, and "though he was a fine man, he was nothing to this woman, for he was round, and could not have stepped out so soldierly[…]"

    1899, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, page 862

warry3

adjective
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of wary

Origin

warry · verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wer-“to twist, bend, crook”
  2. Proto-Germanic*wargijaną“to curse”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wargijan
  4. Old Englishwirġan
  5. Middle Englishwarrien
  6. Englishwarry

From Middle English warrien, warien, waryen, werien, werȝen, from Old English wirġan, wirġean, weriġan, wirian (“to curse, revile”), from Proto-West Germanic *wargijan, from Proto-Germanic *wargijaną (“to curse”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to twist, bend, crook”).

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warry · adjective

From war + -y.

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Chicago

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