different between venery vs veery

English

Alternative forms

• venarie (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?n??i/

Etymology 1

From Middle English venerie, borrowed from Middle French venerie, from Old French venerie (“hunting”), derived from vener, from Latin v?nor (“I hunt”).

Noun

venery (usually uncountable, plural veneries)

1. The hunting of wild animals.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

     But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.

2. Game animals.

Derived terms

• beast of venery
• term of venery

Related terms

• venison

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin veneria, from venus (“love”).

Noun

venery (countable and uncountable, plural veneries)

1. The pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence.

Related terms

• venereal

Anagrams

• Verney

English

Etymology

Probably imitative of the bird's call. Attested since the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???i/

Noun

veery (plural veeries)

1. An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada.

Translations

References

• “veery”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “veery”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Every, every, verye, y'ever