Middle English

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Etymology

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See gere (childish behaviour) +‎ -y.

Adjective

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gery

  1. Subject to frequent and sudden changes; variable, unpredictable.
  2. (of a person) Changeable; fickle.
    • 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Knight's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:
      Right so kan gery Venus ouercaste The hertes of hir folk.
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  3. (of clothing) Faddish
    • 1399, Mum and the Sothsegger:
      How þe while turneth With gyuleris, joyffull for here gery jaces.
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