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Barny vs Barry - What's the difference?

barny | barry |

As nouns the difference between barny and barry

is that barny is an argument, a disagreement while barry is (heraldry) a field divided transversely into several equal parts, and consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.

As an adjective barny

is barn-like.

barny

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(barnies)
  • An argument, a disagreement.
  • * 1983 , Marilyn Porter, Home, Work, and Class Consciousness , page 78:
    • So he said she should have said, and we had a bit of a barny , like.

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Barn-like.
  • * 2006 , W. S. Merwin, Summer Doorways: A Memoir , page 210:
    • Everyone was breathing hard, and there was a barny smell in the room.

    Anagrams

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    barry

    English

    Etymology 1

    Anglicized form of (etyl) Barra, short form of Fionnbharr, from .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , sometimes also used as a diminutive of Bartholomew.
  • derived from the given name, or from place names in Scotland and Wales.
    • Derived terms
    * Diminutives: Baz, Bazza
    Quotations
    * 1844 , , The Luck of Barry Lyndon (University of Michigan Press, 1999, ISBN 047211042X), page 44 *: I remembered that I had signed the documents Barry' Redmond instead of Redmond '''Barry'''; but what else could I do? - - - "Hark ye, Mr Fitzsimons," said I; "I will tell you why I was obliged to alter my name - which ''is'' ' Barry , and the best name in Ireland.

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Any of a number of places, including a coastal town near Cardiff in Wales, United Kingdom.

    • References

    * Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.