dracarys
dracarys interjection: used to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.
Interjection
- Used to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.
- Tiny lines of blue lightning wrapped around the silver rings on my fingers. Hellfire came to me so easily.
"Dracarys," murmured Harvey, and shot me a smile. "That's from a TV show. Just trying to be supportive."2020, Sarah Rees Brennan, Sabrina: Path of Knight, unnumbered page - They're watching me like they expected me to start yelling “Dracarys” and torching random buildings, even though they've no proof that I did anything wrong and the source of the fire is still under investigation.2022, E. M. Snow, Malice, unnumbered pages
- Tiny lines of blue lightning wrapped around the silver rings on my fingers. Hellfire came to me so easily.
Verb
dracarys (third-person singular simple present dracaryses, present participle dracarysing, simple past and past participle dracarysed)
- To burn or destroy.
- It's no secret that I love hot and spicy food, so in addition to the hundred-plus people I'd like to dracarys on a daily basis, I'd do it to my Bloody to ensure it has extra heat.2020, Joey Skladany, Basic Bitchen, page 35
- What Warren Buffett Should've Told Ya #5: You Didn't Get into This to Dracarys a Bitch2021, Phoebe Robinson, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays, page 90
Examples of dracarys in a sentence
- The starter whirls for what seems like 15 seconds and then, Dracarys, the fire spitter behind your head starts howling.2022 April, Jonny Lieberman, “Attempt To Tame The Most Ferocious Pagani Yet”, in Motor Trend, page 37:
- On my last day of work, when I wanted to Dracarys everyone (I'll get to that), I realised why.2023, Sonja Hadj Said, Bluebird, unnumbered page:
Forms of dracarys
| third-person singular present | dracaryses |
|---|---|
| present participle | dracarysing |
| past participle | dracarysed |
| past | dracarysed |
Origin of dracarys
Learned borrowing from High Valyrian dracarys. Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin as a word meaning "dragonfire" in that fictional language featured in his A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. In the novel series, as well as its television adaptation Game of Thrones, the character Daenerys Targaryen uses dracarys (drakarys in the television series) to command her dragons to breathe fire. The language creator chosen for Game of Thrones, David J. Peterson, acknowledged that dracarys was influenced by Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Questions about dracarys
- What does dracarys mean?
- Dracarys means used to underscore the act, intent, or desire to start a fire or burn something.
- How do you use dracarys in a sentence?
- The starter whirls for what seems like 15 seconds and then, Dracarys, the fire spitter behind your head starts howling.
- What part of speech is dracarys?
- Dracarys can be an interjection or a verb.
Words near dracarys in the dictionary
Source and license
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