Borry vs Gorry - What's the difference?
borry | gorry |
* 1885 , , Huckleberry Finn , ch. 21:
(archaic, euphemistic) God!
*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=(AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin, title=The Village Watch-Tower, chapter=, edition=
, passage=She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry ! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside." }}
*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Gouverneur Morris, title=IT and Other Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage="By gorry !" says I; "you're right. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Franklin P. Adams, title=Something Else Again, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry ! }}
As a verb borry
is .As an interjection gorry is
(archaic|euphemistic) god!.borry
English
Verb
(head)- You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry' d off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back
gorry
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Interjection
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