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warry en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, dialectal, transitive) To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
warrying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
warries Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
warried Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
warried Tense=Past lexicographic
wary alternative lexicographic

Relateds

warriangle · worry · wargus

warry en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From war + -y.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) Warlike, 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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
warriest Degree=Sup lexicographic
warrier Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Relateds

warray

warry en · ADJ · etymology 3

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of wary
    alt of wary