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warry

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of warry

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

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

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

adj

  1. (uncommon)Warlike, warrish.
    “[…] 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[…]"”
  2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of wary

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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”).

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