scarry
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scarry (comparative scarrier, superlative scarriest)
- Like a scar, or rocky eminence.
- Bearing scars, or marks of wounds.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- déepe scarrie rockes
- 2020, Lesley L. Smith, A Jack For All Seasons, page 45:
- The biggest, scariest, scarriest man in the room said, “It's about time, Jones.”
References edit
- “scarry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.