"warry" meaning in English

See warry in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: warrier [comparative], warriest [superlative]
Etymology: From war + -y. Etymology templates: {{af|en|war|-y|id2=adjectival}} war + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} warry (comparative warrier, superlative warriest)
  1. (uncommon) Warlike, warrish. Tags: uncommon Related terms: warray
    Sense id: en-warry-en-adj-5sn~l04x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 8 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 62 8 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 6 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} warry
  1. Obsolete spelling of wary Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: wary
    Sense id: en-warry-en-adj-WUOPgwlz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

Forms: warries [present, singular, third-person], warrying [participle, present], warried [participle, past], warried [past], wary [alternative]
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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|warrien}} Middle English warrien, {{inh|en|ang|wirġan}} Old English wirġan, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*wargijan}} Proto-West Germanic *wargijan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*wargijaną|t=to curse}} Proto-Germanic *wargijaną (“to curse”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*wer-|t=to twist, bend, crook}} Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to twist, bend, crook”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} warry (third-person singular simple present warries, present participle warrying, simple past and past participle warried)
  1. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of. Tags: archaic, dialectal, transitive Related terms: wargus, warriangle, worry
    Sense id: en-warry-en-verb-hC~XSKCB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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