warry
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- wary (Northern England, Scotland)
Etymology
[edit]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”).
Verb
[edit]warry (third-person singular simple present warries, present participle warrying, simple past and past participle warried)
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