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siseraries

siseraries is the plural of siserary.

Meaning of siserary

Noun

siserary (plural siseraries)

  1. (obsolete) A severe rebuke or scolding.
    • […] I retreated—retreated, Colonel, and without confusion or dishonour, and took post behind worthy Master Holdenough, who, with the spirit of a lion, threw himself in the way of the supposed spectre, and attacked it with such a siserary of Latin as might have scared the devil himself […]1826, [Walter Scott], “[HTTPS://ARCHIVE.ORG/DETAILS/WOODSTOCKORCAVAL01SCOT CHAPTER 10]”, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald...
  2. (obsolete) A sharp blow.
    • I ketched him in the very fect, coming out of the house-maid’s garret.—But I have gi’en the dirty slut a siserary.1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 97

Questions about siseraries

What is siseraries the plural of?
Siseraries is the plural of siserary.

Words near siseraries in the dictionary

  1. sisels
  2. Sisemore
  3. Sisemores
  4. siserara
  5. siseraras
  6. siseraries
  7. siserary
  8. siserskite
  9. sises
  10. sisexual bex
  11. Sisha

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