frory
English
Etymology
From frore + -y. Compare Old English frēoriġ (“freezing, frozen, cold, chilly; blanched with fear, sad, mournful”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹɔːɹi/
Adjective
frory (comparative more frory, superlative most frory)
- (now rare) Frosty; frozen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- An aged sire with head all frory hore,
And sprinckled frost vpon his deawy beard […]
- Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.