different between venery vs veney

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?ne?/

Noun

veney (plural veneys)

1. (obsolete) A bout; a thrust; a venew.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since.

See also

• venew
• visne