Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having burs; prickly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of burs; resembling burs: as, burry wool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs.
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- adjective Abounding in
burs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Offerings of flowers, tendered by a friend, or laid anonymously on "burry" or coffin; bags of fruit and cake, invitations galore, surprise visits to her own study, each in turn bringing a gleam of brightness to the day.
A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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As she sat before a "burry," clad in a blue, pinafore-like garment, from which emerged white silk sleeves to match the collar and yoke, her hand absently turning over a pile of notebooks, bound in green and blue and rose, she made a striking contrast to Hannah Vernon in a cinnamon coat and skirt, built for wear by a cheap tailor on the principle of "there or thereabouts."
A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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Whatever, if you want to burry your head in sand and keep paying the excessive fees to private companies, it's your choice.
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I get so much satisfaction watching the repugs burry themselves deeper and deeper with their stupidity and lies.
Think Progress » Gun Advocates Plan DC March On 15th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing 2010
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I guess some people like to burry their head in the sand and rather pay ever increasing taxes to private health insurance company BUREAUCRATS that keep DENYING them needed services.
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You molest small children then burry them in your backyard.
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Lets burry the repugs again in 2010, they dont deserve to be in office.
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Did you burry the little boys you raped and muredered in your backyard?
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Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says: dhunt says he LOVES to molest the little nieghborhood boys then burry them in his backyard
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So after you molest and kill your nieghborhood children do you burry them in your backyard or in the park?
evin290 commented on the word burry
adj. prickly
December 29, 2007
missanthropist commented on the word burry
Adjective. Description of one in appearance & mannerism. Rough, boorish, uncouth, shaggy, unkempt.
May 17, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word burry
(adjective/verb) - (1) Probably rough, boorish, according to Lord Hailes. It might bear this meaning as descriptive of the shaggy appearance of a dog; from French bourru, flockie, hairie, rugged, and Old French bourre, locks of wool. But it seems more naturally to convey the idea of cruelty. From French bourreau, an executioner. --John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808 (2) Burrie, to push roughly; to crowd confusedly and violently; to overpower. --Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911 (3) Shaggy; rough. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888
January 26, 2018