different between warish vs wearish

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

Possibly from weary + -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?????/

Adjective

wearish (comparative more wearish, superlative most wearish)

1. (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].

   • , New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:

     Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].

Derived terms

• wearishness

Anagrams

• washier