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Gorry

Gorry

See also: gorry

Manx

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Gorry m

  1. A male given name, Manx equivalent to Godfrey, Anglicized as Orry or Godred.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Gorry Ghorry Ngorry
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

gorry

gorry

See also: Gorry

English

Interjection

gorry

  1. (archaic, euphemistic) God!
    • 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs), The Village Watch-Tower:
      She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside."
    • 1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories:
      "By gorry!" says I; "you're right.
    • 1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again:
      No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!