-ery
- qualities collectively : character : -ness
- art : practice
- place of doing, keeping, producing, or selling (the thing specified)
- collection : aggregate
- state or condition
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əɹi/
suffix
Etymology: Alteration of -y.
- 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.”