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by'r lady

by'r lady is the alternative form of byrlady.

Meaning of byrlady

Interjection

  1. (obsolete) Used as an exclamation of surprise or anger.
    • Ayoong Heyre […] falles in a quarrelling humor with his fortune, because she made him not King of the Indies, and sweares and stares after ten in the hundreth, that nere a such Pesant as his Father or brother shall keepe him vnder, hee will to the sea and teare the gold out of the Spaniards throats...1592, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell

Interjection capitalized: by'r Lady

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of byrlady

Questions about by'r lady

What is by'r lady the alternative form of?
By'r lady is the alternative form of byrlady.
What part of speech is by'r lady?
By'r lady is an interjection.

Words near by'r lady in the dictionary

  1. by wire
  2. by your leave
  3. by your leaves
  4. by'm-by
  5. by'r
  6. by'r lady
  7. by't
  8. by-
  9. by-and-by
  10. by-bidder
  11. by-bidders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: by'r lady (page history and authors); by'r Lady (page history and authors); byrlady (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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