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-ery

  1. qualities collectively : character : -ness
  2. art : practice
  3. place of doing, keeping, producing, or selling (the thing specified)
  4. collection : aggregate
  5. state or condition
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Pronunciation: /əɹi/

suffix

Etymology: Alteration of -y.

  1. Forming adjectives.

    My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.