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Merry vs Werry - What's the difference?

merry | werry |

As an adjective merry

is jolly and full of high spirits.

As a proper noun Merry

is {{surname|from=nicknames}} Originally a nickname for a merry person.

As an adverb werry is

very.

merry

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)
  • Jolly and full of high spirits
    • We had a very merry Christmas.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
  • Festive and full of fun and laughter
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • f I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.
    Everyone was merry at the party.
  • Brisk
    • The play moved along at a merry pace.
  • Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
    • a merry jest
  • * Spenser
    • merry wind and weather
  • (euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
    • Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) mery

    Derived terms

    * Merry Christmas * Merry Eid

    Synonyms

    * happy * gay * content * joyful * cheerful * pleased * exultant * ecstatic * jovial

    Antonyms

    * miserable * unhappy

    Derived terms

    * merrier * merrily * merriment

    werry

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) very
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Frank J. Webb, title=The Garies and Their Friends, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Better let me make you up a little fire, the nights is werry cool," continued Ben. " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=John Bennett, title=Master Skylark, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="We must be off if we're to lie at Uxbridge overnight; for there hath been rain beyond, sir, and the roads be werry deep." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 30, 1890., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I spent a werry plessant arternoon there, and drove home in style on the Box Seat of a reel Company's Bus. The nex day I went to Higate Wood, another of the grate works of the good old Copperashun. }}

    Anagrams

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