warry

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”).

warry (third-person singular simple present warries, present participle warrying, simple past and past participle warried)

1. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.

• wary (Northern England, Scotland)

• wargus
• warriangle
• worry

From war +‎ -y.

warry (comparative warrier, superlative warriest)

1. (uncommon) Warlike, warrish.
   • 1604, Alexander Craig, The Poeticall Essayes of Alexander Craige, Scotobritane:

     […] a Monarch's suretie no way stood In victories, in warrie broyles, and blood: […]

   • 1899, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, page 862:

     The woman had a sword by her side […] She looked "very strong and warry and fierce, but not wicked;" that is, not cruel, at all. The old woman had seen the Irish giant, and "though he was a fine man, he was nothing to this woman, for he was round, and could not have stepped out so soldierly […]"

• warray

warry

1. Obsolete spelling of wary

From English worry.

• IPA^(key): /wɑː.rɪ/

warry

1. to worry

• De Nyew Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025