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-erie

-erie is the alternative spelling of -ery.

-erie is the obsolete spelling of -ery in other senses.

Meaning of -ery

Suffix (1)

-ery (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -eries)

  1. Added to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
    • midwife + -ery → midwifery
  2. Added to verbs to form nouns meaning "place of" (an art, craft, or practice).
    • bake + -ery → bakery
    Synonyms:
    -ing
  3. Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "a class, group, or collection of."
    • crock + -ery → crockery
    Synonyms:
    -age, -ing
  4. Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "behavior characteristic of."
    • snob + -ery → snobbery

Suffix (2)

-ery (adjective-forming suffix, comparative more -ery, superlative most -ery)

  1. (rare) Forming adjectives.
    • My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.1917, The Christian Advocate, volume XCII, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 559, column 1

Origin of -erie

Influenced by French -erie.

Questions about -erie

What is -erie the alternative spelling of?
-erie is the alternative spelling of -ery.

Words near -erie in the dictionary

  1. -erg-
  2. -ergic
  3. -ergy
  4. -eria
  5. -eridine
  6. -erie
  7. -eries
  8. -erisation
  9. -erise
  10. -erised
  11. -erises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -erie (page history and authors); -ery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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