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arré

arré is the alternative form of arrey.

Meaning of arrey

Interjection

  1. (India) Expressing surprise or alarm; hey.
    • ‘Nay, I cannot move another step,’ he howled. ‘I am old and my turban is lost. Arré! Arré!’1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 206

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Questions about arré

What is arré the alternative form of?
Arré is the alternative form of arrey.

Words near arré in the dictionary

  1. arrythmias
  2. arrythmogenesis
  3. arrythmogenic
  4. arrythmogenicity
  5. arrythymogenic
  6. arré
  7. arrêt
  8. arrêts
  9. ars
  10. ars antiqua
  11. ars gratia artis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arré (page history and authors); arrey (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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