wery

See also: Wery

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.'

Anagrams

• Wrye, Wyer, Wyre, ewry, wyer, wyre

Middle English

Alternative forms

• weri, werie

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweːriː/

Adjective

wery

1. weary

Descendants

• English: weary
• Yola: weery

References

• “wẹ̄rī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.