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lurry

lurry verb: to lug or pull about. Also the alternative form of lorry.

Verb (1)

lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)

  1. (transitive) To lug or pull about.

Verb (2)

lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)

  1. (transitive) To daub; dirty.

Noun

lurry (plural lurries)

  1. (obsolete) A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.
    • How durſt you Rogues take the opinion / To vapor here in my Dominion, / Without my leave, and make a lurry, / That men cannot be quiet for ye!1664, Charles Cotton, Scarronides
    • to turn prayer into a kind of lurry1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC

Verb (3)

lurry (third-person singular simple present lurries, present participle lurrying, simple past and past participle lurried)

  1. (intransitive) To hurry carelessly.

Proper noun capitalized: Lurry

Lurry (plural Lurrys)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

lurry is also the alternative form of lorry.

Forms of lurry

Verb
third-person singular presentlurries
present participlelurrying
past participlelurried
pastlurried
Noun
plurallurries
Proper noun
pluralLurrys

Origin of lurry

Of obscure origin. See lorry.

Shortened form of liripipe.

Words formed from lurry

Questions about lurry

What does lurry mean?
Lurry means to lug or pull about.
What part of speech is lurry?
Lurry can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of lurry?
The past tense of lurry is lurried.

Words near lurry in the dictionary

  1. lurosetron
  2. lurr
  3. lurried
  4. lurries
  5. lurrs
  6. lurry
  7. lurrying
  8. lurryman
  9. lurrymen
  10. Lurrys
  11. lurs

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