different between warish vs garish

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English warischen, warishen, warisshen, from Anglo-Norman waris-, the present participle stem of warir, from Old French guarir (modern guérir), from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjan?. Compare guarish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w????/

Verb

warish (third-person singular simple present warishes, present participle warishing, simple past and past participle warished)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure or heal (an illness or a person).
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Thanne were myn herte / Al warisshed of his bittre peynes smerte.

   • Varro testifieth, that even at this day there be some there who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To get better; to recover from an illness.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?????/

Adjective

warish (comparative more warish, superlative most warish)

1. Alternative form of warrish (“warlike”).
   • 1974, Every librarian a manager: proceedings of a conference (Special Libraries Association, Indiana Chapter, Purdue University. Libraries and Audio-Visual Center):

     Because we found that operations management, strategic management of war forces, proved to have a lot of value, strategic management was shifted over into the arena of the industrial organization. So you'll notice the definition of strategy comes very much from a warish, militaristic context, i.e., the positioning of armed forces...

   • 2004, Instructor's Manual for Velasquez's Philosophy, A Text with Readings (?ISBN):

     [...] the state of nature is a warish, brutal state.

Anagrams

• hwairs, rawish

English

Etymology

Of unknown origin, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *g?ow-rós, from *g?ew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???????/

Adjective

garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)

1. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. [from 1540s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gaudy

Derived terms

• garishly
• garishness

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Harigs, girahs, girsha