Wery vs Weary - What's the difference?

wery | weary |

As adjectives the difference between wery and weary

is that wery is while weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

As an adverb wery

is .

As a verb weary is

to make or to become weary.

wery

English

Adverb

(en adverb)

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, year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=176 , passage='Wery',' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a ' wery bad 'un,' says my father.}}

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, year=1837 , author=William Burton , title=Burton's comic songster citation , page=59 , passage=There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!}}

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, year=1844 , author=Lawrence Ladree , title=Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post citation , page=25 , passage=It was jest sich a night as this— wery' cold — '''wery'''. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's '''wery''' cloudy — '''wery'''. ... I come and stood on this 'ere ' wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

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, year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=85 , passage='Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.}}

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, year=1897 , author=Walter Rye , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=144 , passage=... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...}}

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, year=1903 , author=Charles Longman , title=Longman's magazine, Vol. 41 citation , page=232 , passage='Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'}}

weary

English

Adjective

(er)

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , :

*:I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .

*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

*:[I] am weary , thinking of your task.

*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

Expressive of fatigue.

Causing weariness; tiresome.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:weary way

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:There passed a weary time.

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Derived terms

* wearily * weariness * wearisome

Verb

(en-verb)

To make or to become weary.

* Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )

So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,

* Milton

I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

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