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druery

druery is the alternative form of drury.

Meaning of drury

Noun

drury

  1. (obsolete) Love, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.
  2. (obsolete) A love token or keepsake, a physical object symbolic of a loving relationship.
  3. (obsolete) A beloved person; a sweetheart.
  4. (obsolete) A beloved thing; a treasure.
    • It is as derworth a drewery · as dere god hym-seluen.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I

See all 10 meanings of drury

Forms of druery

pluraldrueries

Questions about druery

What is druery the alternative form of?
Druery is the alternative form of drury.

Words near druery in the dictionary

  1. drudgingly
  2. drudgings
  3. drudgism
  4. drudgy
  5. drueries
  6. druery
  7. druft
  8. drug
  9. drug abuse
  10. drug abuser
  11. drug abusers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: druery (page history and authors); drury (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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