Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

warry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables: war-ry
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.

Archaic; Transitive verb

adj

Warlike, warrish.

adj

Obsolete spelling of wary

Obsolete

Example Sentences

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

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”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: warrien, wirġan, *wargijan, *wargijaną, *wer-

Usage

Inflected Forms

warries (present, singular) warrying (participle, present) warried (participle, past) warried (past) wary (alternative) warrier (comparative) warriest (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

wargus warriangle worry warray

Questions

What does warry mean?: To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.
Where does warry come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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