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garry

garry is the alternative form of gharry.

garry is the alternative form of garri.

Meaning of gharry

Noun

gharry (plural gharries)

  1. (India, Myanmar) A wheeled cart or carriage, usually horsedrawn.
    • “I shall stand, always with that mauve and white ‘cloud’ over my head, while the wet soaks into my dear, old, venerable feet and Tom swears and shouts for the mem-sahib's gharri.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 19
  2. (South Africa, slang) A jeep or small truck for conveying troops.

Meaning of garri

Noun

garri (uncountable)

  1. A West African food made from fried mashed cassava tubers.
    • They cooked together, his mother stirring the soup, Obinze making the garri.2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, Anchor Books (2014), page 84

Proper noun capitalized: Garry

Garry

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, a mostly British variant of Gary.
  3. A river in Inverness-shire, Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Oich.
  4. A river in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which joins the River Tummel.

Forms of garry

pluralgarries

Words formed from garry

Questions about garry

What does garry mean?
Garry means a surname.
What is garry the alternative form of?
Garry is the alternative form of gharry.
What part of speech is garry?
Garry is a proper noun.

Words near garry in the dictionary

  1. garrulously
  2. garrulousness
  3. garrupa
  4. garrupas
  5. Garrwa
  6. garry
  7. Garry oak
  8. garrya
  9. garryaceous
  10. garryas
  11. garryfoline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: garry (page history and authors); Garry (page history and authors); gharry (page history and authors); garri (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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