different between pry vs pory

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English pryen, prien (“to look closely, peer into, pry, spy”), from Old English *pr?wan, *pr?owian (“to look narrowly, to squint at”), attested by Old English bepr?wan, bepr?wan (“to wink”). Akin to Old English *pr?owot (“closing of the eyes”), attested only in combination, compare pr?owthw?l (“blink or twinkling of an eye, moment”), Old English princ (“a wink”). More at prink.

Verb

pry (third-person singular simple present pries, present participle prying, simple past and past participle pried)

1. (intransitive) To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy.
2. (intransitive) To keep asking about something that does not concern one.
3. (intransitive) To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public).

Translations

Noun

pry (plural pries)

1. The act of prying.
2. An excessively inquisitive person.

Translations

Etymology 2

1800, back-formation from prize ("lever"), construed as a plural noun or as a 3rd-person singular verb.

Noun

pry (plural pries)

1. A lever.
2. Leverage.

Translations

Verb

pry (third-person singular simple present pries, present participle prying, simple past and past participle pried)

1. To use leverage to open or widen.

   Synonyms: prise (British English), prize

Translations

Anagrams

• pyr-

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English preien.

Verb

pry

1. to pray

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

pore +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Adjective

pory (comparative more pory, superlative most pory)

1. (archaic) porous

   • Now to the court arriv'd th' admiring son / Beholds the vaulted roofs of pory stone.

Anagrams

• opry, pyro, pyro-, ropy

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.r?/

Noun

pory m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of por

Noun

pory f

1. inflection of pora:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural