wery

wery (comparative more wery, superlative most wery)

1. Pronunciation spelling of very.
   • 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers‎^[1], 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^[2], page 59:

     There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!

   • 1844, Lawrence Ladree, Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post‎^[3], 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.

wery (comparative more wery, superlative most wery)

1. Pronunciation spelling of very.
   • 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers‎^[4], 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^[5], 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^[6], page 232:

     'Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'

• Wrye, Wyer, Wyre, ewry, wyer, wyre

• weri, werie

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈweːriː/

wery

1. weary

• English: weary
• Yola: weery

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

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Southern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛ.rɘ]
• (Masovia):
  • (Podlachia) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛ.rɘ]

wery nvir pl

1. (Southern Greater Poland, Krotoszyn County) alternative form of wyro (“huge beds, usually painted with bright colors, covered with bedding reaching almost to the ceiling”)
2. (Podlachia, Tykocin) alternative form of wyro (“simple sleeping bed with four different sides”)

• Jan Karłowicz (1911), “wér”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volumes 6: U—Ż, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 90