-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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