scarry
adjEtymology From scar (“mark of wound”) + -y.
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Bearing scars, or marks of wounds.
- The biggest, scariest, scarriest man in the room said, “It’s about time, Jones.”2020, Lesley L. Smith, A Jack For All Seasons, page 45:
scarry
adj/ˈskɑːɹi/
Etymology From Middle English scarri, equivalent to scar (“rocky eminence”) + -y.
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Like a scar, or rocky eminence.
- When it [the aurochs] is come to Maſham, it receyueth the Burne, by ſouth weſt (as it dyd the wile, from very déepe ſcarry rockes, befoꝛe at Aſkaran) and dyuers other wild rilles not woꝛthy to be remẽbꝛed, […]1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of such Riuers as fall into the Sea, betweene Humber to the Thames.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, folio 31, verso, column 1: