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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant form of ne'er a.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
nary (not comparable)
- Not, never.
- 2014, Richard Swenson, More Than Meets the Eye: Fascinating Glimpses of God's Power and Design, Tyndale House, →ISBN:
- Every day, uncomplaining, this ten-ounce muscle contracts 100 thousand times nary “missing a beat.” Over a lifetime of faithful service, these two self-lubricating, self-regulating, high-capacity pumps beat two and one-half billion times […]
- 1923, Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines:
- And all about the room, candles gleaming in branched sconces. Nary one glare of electric light.
- 2014, Lori Gertz, When Mama Can't Kiss it Better, A journey of love, loss and acceptance[1]:
- Then, it took her nary ten minutes to diagnose me with adrenal fatigue
- 2018, Antero Pietila, The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City[2]:
- Nary three weeks before, on December 12, Officer Cherylann Young steered a marked Miami-Dade County police cruiser toward the perimeter of MIA, the international airport.
- 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Mr. Hat), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch:
- Mr. Hat: 'GOLDARMOR, THERE YOU ARE! I WAS THINKING... I'VE FOUGHT SCADS OF FOES, YET NARY A HAT IS WITHIN A GRASP!'
Adjective[edit]
nary (not comparable)
- Not any.
- 1910, John McElroy, Si Klegg: Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign, page 109:
- We'uns wuz willin't fout fur ole Tennessee, but for nary other State. When he started out o' Tennessee we'uns jest concluded t' strike out and leave him.
- 1961 March 20, Flannery O'Connor, letter to Maryat Lee, [ublished in 1988, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (→ISBN):
- I'm cheered you liked [“The Partridge Festival”] but I must have it back as I have nary other copy. If you really want to read somebody, read Proust for pity's sake.
- 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 286:
- Together standing on the step outside the apartment house. Where nary a moth will ever come to smash its little dust on a Bonniface window pane.
- 2010, Dorothy McCleary, Not for Heaven, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 289:
- "Pish, and who cares for nary other?" Mrs. Bostwick cried out, tossing Etta's hand away from her. "I do, for one," said Etta tartly.
Translations[edit]
Translations
References[edit]
- “nary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams[edit]
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain, possibly from Lithuanian nariaĩ (singular narỹs), possibly through Belarusian на́ры (náry).[1] Compare Russian на́ры (náry) and Ukrainian на́ри (náry). First attested in 1570.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈna.rɨ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈna.rɨ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -arɨ
- Syllabification: na‧ry
Noun[edit]
nary nvir pl
Declension[edit]
Declension of nary
References[edit]
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “nary”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ “nary”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
Further reading[edit]
- nary in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nary”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 153
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