lurry
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See also: Lurry
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Etymology 1[edit]
Of obscure origin. See lorry.
Verb[edit]
lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)
- (transitive) To lug or pull about.
- (transitive) To daub; dirty.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Shortened form of liripipe.
Noun[edit]
lurry (plural lurries)
- (obsolete) A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.
- 1664, Charles Cotton, Scarronides:
- How durſt you Rogues take the opinion / To vapor here in my Dominion, / Without my leave, and make a lurry, / That men cannot be quiet for ye!
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
- to turn prayer into a kind of lurry
Verb[edit]
lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)
- (intransitive) To hurry carelessly.