-ery

//əɹi//

"-ery" in a Sentence (11 examples)

midwife + -ery → midwifery

cook + -ery → cookery

bake + -ery → bakery

distill + -ery → distillery

join + -ery → joinery

crock + -ery → crockery

hose + -ery → hosiery

shrub + -ery → shrubbery

snob + -ery → snobbery

tomfool + -ery → tomfoolery

My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.

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