different between verry vs serry

English

Adjective

verry (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of very

Adverb

verry (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of very
   • 1819, Nancy Collin, Letter to her parents, 2007, Terrance Keenan, If Our Lives Be Spared: A Saga of the Collin Family Settlers in Early New York State, page 62,

     I have enjoyed a verry poor state of health since I wrote to you last ...

   • 1862, Solomon York, Letter to his future wife, 2004, Wallace E. Jarrell, The Randolph Hornets in the Civil War, page 168,

     I have nothing verry interesting to write.

   • 1913, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volumes 43-45, page 626,

     When we first came to this place our men were verry feeble […] .

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French serrer, from Vulgar Latin *serrare (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serare (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“a bar, bolt”), akin to Latin serere (“to join or bind together”). Compare French serrer (“to tighten”) and Spanish cerrar (“to shut, close”). See serries.

Verb

serry (third-person singular simple present serries, present participle serrying, simple past and past participle serried)

1. To crowd; to press together.

Anagrams

• Ryers, Ryser