different between hurried vs spry

English

Alternative forms

• hurryed (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??id/
• (US, accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger) IPA^(key): /?h?id/
• (US, accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger) IPA^(key): /?h??id/

Adjective

hurried (comparative more hurried, superlative most hurried)

1. Done in a hurry; rushed.

Verb

hurried

1. simple past tense and past participle of hurry

Anagrams

• dhurrie

English

Etymology

From British dialectal sprey, from Old Norse sprækr (“nimble, lively”) from Proto-Germanic *spr?kiz (“lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pereg- (“to strew, jerk, sprinkle, scatter”). Cognate with Icelandic sprækur (“lively, spry”), Norwegian sprek (“lively, healthy”), dialectal Swedish sprygg (“brisk, very active, skittish”). More at spark. Related to sprack, sprig, sprug, freckle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

spry (comparative sprier, superlative spriest)

1. Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
2. Vigorous; lively; cheerful.
   • 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)

     The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
     'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'

Translations

Anagrams

• Prys, syrp