harry
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æri
[edit] Etymology
Middle English harien, herien, from Old English hergian ‘to pillage, plunder’, from Proto-Germanic *harjōnan (cf. East Frisian ferheerje, German verheeren ‘to harry, devastate’), from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”) (cf. Old English here, West Frisian hear, Dutch hee, German Heer), from Proto-Indo-European *kori̯os (cf. Middle Irish cuire ‘army’, Lithuanian kãrias ‘army; war’, Old Church Slavonic kara ‘strife’, Ancient Greek koíranos ‘chief, commander’, Old Persian kāra ‘army’).
[edit] Verb
harry (third-person singular simple present harries, present participle harrying, simple past and past participle harried)
- (transitive) To bother; to trouble.
- We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.
- 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, BBC Sport:
- Chelsea also struggled to keep possession as QPR harried and chased at every opportunity, giving their opponents no time on the ball.
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Etymology
From the English name Harry.
[edit] Adjective
harry
- (slang, derogatory) cheesy, shabby, kitschy
