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Gorry vs Gorky - What's the difference?

gorry | gorky |

As an interjection gorry

is god.

As a proper noun Gorky is

nizhny Novgorod.

As an adjective gorky is

awkward or strange.

gorry

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (archaic, euphemistic) God!
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=(AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin, title=The Village Watch-Tower, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage="By gorry !" says I; "you're right. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Franklin P. Adams, title=Something Else Again, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry ! }}

    gorky

    English

    (Nizhny Novgorod) (Maxim Gorky)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (historical) Nizhny Novgorod.
  • A Russian surname.
  • (a city in Belarus)