whurry

English

Etymology

See hurry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌɹi/, /ˈʍʌɹi/
• Rhymes: -ʌɹi

Homophone: worry

Verb

whurry (third-person singular simple present whurries, present participle whurrying, simple past and past participle whurried)

1. To whisk along quickly; to hurry.
   • 1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil:

     Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “whurry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)