Warry
adj, verb
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of. archaic, dialectal, transitive
Adjective
- 1 Warlike, warrish. uncommon
"[…] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]"
- 2 Obsolete spelling of wary alt-of, obsolete
Example
More examples"[…] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]"
Etymology
Etymology 1
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”).
Etymology 2
From war + -y.
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