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Wery vs Wry - What's the difference?

wery | wry |

As adjectives the difference between wery and wry

is that wery is while wry is turned away, contorted (of the face or body).

As an adverb wery

is .

As a verb wry is

(obsolete|intransitive) to turn (away); to swerve or deviate or wry can be (obsolete) to cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.

wery

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author=William Burton , title=Burton's comic songster citation , page=59 , passage=There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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 ...}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.'}}

    wry

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wrien, from (etyl) . Compare awry, wriggle.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
  • * 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 17:
    • '"Why, you snivelling, wry -faced, puny villain," gasped old Lobbs.
  • * 1913 , , The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park , ch. 11:
    • “Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.
  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
  • * 1871 , , The Haunted Baronet , ch. 6:
    • "[T]he master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head."
  • Twisted, bent, crooked.
  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
  • * 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 34:
    • Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work.
  • * 1876 , , The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor , vol. IV, Imaginary Conversations, Third Series: Dialogues of Literary Men, ch. 6—Milton and Andrew Marvel, p. 155 (Google preview):
    • . . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.
    Derived terms
    * wryly * awry

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
  • * 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 18:
    • God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.
  • * , Cymbeline , act 5, sc. 1:
    • You married ones,
    If each of you should take this course, how many
    Must murder wives much better than themselves
    For wrying but a little!
  • (obsolete) To divert; to cause to turn away.
  • To twist or contort (the body, face etc.).

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wryen, wrien, wreon, wrihen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.