different between rory vs frory

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.i/

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s / r?ris (“dew”).

Adjective

rory (comparative more rory, superlative most rory)

1. (obsolete) Covered by dew.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, i, 14

     On Libanon at first his foot he set,
     And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet.

   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 3

     [...] rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.

Synonyms

• (covered by dew): dewy, rorid; see also Thesaurus:bedewed

Related terms

• rore
• rorid

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Adjective

rory (comparative more rory, superlative most rory)

1. (obsolete) Of gaudy, tasteless, or unsubtle colors.

Related terms

• rory-cum-tory
• rory-tory
• tory-rory

Translations

English

Etymology

From frore +? -y. Compare Old English fr?ori? (“freezing, frozen, cold, chilly; blanched with fear, sad, mournful”).

Adjective

frory (comparative more frory, superlative most frory)

1. (now rare) Frosty; frozen.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     An aged sire with head all frory hore, / And sprinckled frost vpon his deawy beard […]

2. Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.

Anagrams

• Forry