scarryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 scarri, equivalent to scar (“rocky eminence”) +‎ -y.

形容詞

scarry (comparative scarrier, superlative scarriest)

1. Like a scar, or rocky eminence.
   • 1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of such Riuers as fall into the Sea, betweene Humber to the Thames.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, folio 31, verso, column 1:

     When it [the aurochs] is come to Maſham, it receyueth the Burne, by ſouth weſt (as it dyd the wile, from very déepe ſcarry rockes, befoꝛe at Aſkaran) and dyuers other wild rilles not woꝛthy to be remẽbꝛed, […]

語源 2

From scar (“mark of wound”) +‎ -y.

形容詞

scarry (comparative scarrier, superlative scarriest)

1. Bearing scars, or marks of wounds.
   • 2020, Lesley L. Smith, A Jack For All Seasons, page 45:

     The biggest, scariest, scarriest man in the room said, “It’s about time, Jones.”

参照

• “scarry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Carrys, Crarys