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parcherry

parcherry is the alternative form of patchery.

Meaning of patchery

Noun (1)

patchery (uncountable)

  1. Hypocrisy; trickery.
    • Thersites: Here is ſuch patchery, ſuch juggling and ſuch knavery!c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
    • [The Clergy] find all that is absolutely requisite, provided in some way or other; they succeed in feeding, clothing, and educating their children, and live in sufficient comfort not to feel the ridicule which belong to dilapidation and patchery.1856, Henry Mason Baum, “The Ministry a Pleasant Work”, in The Church Review., page 532

Noun (2)

patchery (plural patcheries)

  1. (India, UK, historical) Living quarters for married soldiers.

Forms of parcherry

pluralparcherries

Questions about parcherry

What is parcherry the alternative form of?
Parcherry is the alternative form of patchery.

Words near parcherry in the dictionary

  1. parched up
  2. parchedly
  3. parchedness
  4. parcher
  5. parcherries
  6. parcherry
  7. parchers
  8. parches
  9. parchesi
  10. parching
  11. parchingly

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