'Arryish

'Arry +‎ -ish

'Arryish (comparative more 'Arryish, superlative most 'Arryish)

1. (colloquial, dated) raucously cheerful
   • 1880 February 28, William Wallace, “[Review of A Pink Wedding]”, in The Academy, volume 17, number 408 (N.S.), London: Yates & Alexander, →ISSN, page 156:

     He has a fair stock of somewhat 'Arryish animal spirits, but no real humour. He seems to think the Moltbury family "good fun," but, with the exception of little Violet, they are a set of grinning imbeciles that would be hissed off the boards of any respectable theatre, even in the pantomime season.

   • 1894 May 1, W. A. Lewis Bettany, “Five Years of Progress”, in The Theatre, volume 23 (N.S.), London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., →OCLC, page 241:

     The hero is not a gentleman, but a cad of 'Arryish proclivities, the heroine an exasperating little fool with a mission to touch pitch. You can't construct tragedy out of such incongruous material as this.

   • 1895, Émile Zola, translated by Victor Plarr (for the Lutetian Society), Nana, New York: Boni & Liveright, published 1924, →OCLC, page 22:

     Masqueraders were trolling a catch, the chorus of which was accompanied with a tapping of their heels. This 'Arryish departure, which nobody had in the least expected, caused so much amusement that the house encored the catch.

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