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Percy vs Harry - What's the difference?

percy | harry |

As proper nouns the difference between percy and harry

is that percy is {{surname|A=An|English|from=Old French} while Harry is a given name derived from Germanic, also used as a pet form of Henry and Harold.

As a verb harry is

to bother; to trouble.

percy

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , transferred use of the surname since the Middle Ages.

    • Usage notes

    * Also used as a pet form of Piers and Percival.

    Quotations

    * ~1597 William Shakespeare: First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Act V, Scene IV : *: Hotspur . My name is Harry Percy . *: Prince . Why, then, I see / A very valiant rebel of that name. / I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy , / To share with me in glory any more. * 2008 , The Secret Scripture , Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-21528-7, pages 198 - 199: *: I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    harry

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To bother; to trouble.
    • We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.
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    • (Shakespeare)
  • To strip; to lay waste.
    • The Northmen came several times and harried the land.
  • * Washington Irving
    • to harry this beautiful region
  • * J. Burroughs
    • A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.

    Synonyms

    * bother, disturb, harass, trouble, worry

    Derived terms

    * harrier ----