warry meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

warry

verb

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”).

Archaic, Dialectal To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.

Related terms: wargus, warriangle, worry

warry

adj

Etymology From war + -y.

Uncommon Warlike, warrish.

[…] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]1604, Alexander Craig, The Poeticall Essayes of Alexander Craige, Scotobritane:
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[…]"1899, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, page 862:

Related terms: warray