wery
See also: Wery
English
Adverb
wery (comparative more wery, superlative most wery)
- Pronunciation spelling of very.
- 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 176:
- 'Wery,' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a wery bad 'un,' says my father.
- 1844, Lawrence Ladree, Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post, page 25:
- It was jest sich a night as this— wery cold — wery. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's wery cloudy — wery. ... I come and stood on this 'ere wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.
Adjective
wery (comparative more wery, superlative most wery)
- Pronunciation spelling of very.
- 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, page 85:
- 'Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English wēriġ, from Proto-Germanic *wōrīgaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈweːriː/
References
- “wẹ̄rī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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