Harry
proper noun
- male given name
verb
- bother
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈhæɹi/ / /ˈhaɹɪj/ / /ˈhɛɹi/
name
Etymology: Medieval English spoken form of Old French Henri.
- A male given name.
“Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I; / But Harry lives that shall convert those tears / By number into hours of happiness.”
“Henry now, what a soft swain your Henry is! the proper theme of gentle poesy; a name to fall in love withal; devoted at the font to song and sonnet, and the tender passion; a baptized inamorato; a christened hero. Call him Harry, and see how you ameliorate his condition. The man is free again, turned out of song and sonnet and romance, and young ladies' hearts. Shakspeare understood this well, when he wrote of prince Hal and Harry Hotspur. To have called them Henry would have spoiled both characters.”
- A male given name.
- A male given name.
- A male given name.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A diminutive of the female given name Harriet.
noun
Etymology: Medieval English spoken form of Old French Henri.
- The drug heroin.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English herien, harien, from Old English herġian, from Proto-West Germanic *harjōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną, from *harjaz (“army”), from Proto-Indo-European *koryos, from *ker- (“army”). Cognates See also Walloon hairyî, Old French hairier, harier; also Saterland Frisian ferheerje, German verheeren (“to harry, devastate”), Swedish härja (“ravage, harry”); also Old English here, West Frisian hear, Dutch heer, German Heer); also Middle Irish cuire (“army”), Lithuanian kãrias (“army; war”), Old Church Slavonic кара (kara, “strife”), Ancient Greek κοίρανος (koíranos, “chief, commander”), Old Persian [script needed] (kāra, “army”)). More at here (“army”). Compare typologically Latin populor.
- To plunder, pillage, assault.
“I repent me much , That so I harry'd him”
- To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
“'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.'”
- To strip, lay waste, ravage.
“to harry this beautiful region”
“A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.”
- To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.
“Chelsea also struggled to keep possession as QPR harried and chased at every opportunity, giving their opponents no time on the ball.”
“The Colombians' ire was raised even more 10 minutes later when the referee showed a yellow card to [James] Rodríguez – who was apoplectic at the decision – for an innocuous trip that was, as Rodríguez vociferously pointed out with multiple hand gestures, a first offense compared with Fernandinho's harrying.”