different between scry vs spry
scry
English
Alternative forms
- skry
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English scrien, scryen, a shortened form of Middle English ascrien, from Old French escrier (“to cry out”). Influenced by Middle English descrien (“to descry”).
Verb
scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)
- To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects.
- The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.
- (obsolete) To descry; to see.
Translations
Derived terms
- scryer
Etymology 2
From Middle English ascry, ascrie, escrie, from Anglo-Norman ascri, from Old French escri.
Noun
scry (plural scries)
- (obsolete) A cry or shout.
- A flock of wildfowl.
Verb
scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)
- (obsolete) To proclaim.
Anagrams
- Cyrs
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spry
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)
- Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
- 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?'
- 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.'
- 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)
Translations
Anagrams
- Prys, syrp
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