wery

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English

Adverb

wery (comparative more wery, superlative most wery)

  1. 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.
    • 1837, William Burton, Burton's comic songster‎, page 59:
      There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!
    • 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)

  1. 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.
    • 1897, Walter Rye, The Pickwick Papers‎, page 144:
      ... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...
    • 1903, Charles Longman, Longman's magazine, Vol. 41‎, page 232:
      'Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English wēriġ, from Proto-Germanic *wōrīgaz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

wery

  1. weary

Descendants

  • English: weary
  • Yola: weery

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