Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having burs; prickly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of burs; resembling burs: as, burry wool.
Wiktionary
- adj. Abounding in burs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Etymologies
- bur + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As she sat before a "burry," clad in a blue, pinafore-like garment, from which emerged white silk sleeves to match the collar and yoke, her hand absently turning over a pile of notebooks, bound in green and blue and rose, she made a striking contrast to Hannah Vernon in a cinnamon coat and skirt, built for wear by a cheap tailor on the principle of "there or thereabouts.”
“Offerings of flowers, tendered by a friend, or laid anonymously on "burry" or coffin; bags of fruit and cake, invitations galore, surprise visits to her own study, each in turn bringing a gleam of brightness to the day.”
“Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says: dhunt says he LOVES to molest the little nieghborhood boys then burry them in his backyard”
“Lets burry the repugs again in 2010, they dont deserve to be in office.”
“I get so much satisfaction watching the repugs burry themselves deeper and deeper with their stupidity and lies.”
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“Did you burry the little boys you raped and muredered in your backyard?”
“So after you molest and kill your nieghborhood children do you burry them in your backyard or in the park?”
“You molest small children then burry them in your backyard.”
“Whatever, if you want to burry your head in sand and keep paying the excessive fees to private companies, it's your choice.”
“I guess some people like to burry their head in the sand and rather pay ever increasing taxes to private health insurance company BUREAUCRATS that keep DENYING them needed services.”
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puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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unpeterbed, pulchritudinous, august, adorable, gingerly, houghmagandy, pimptastic, wikiality, philomachic, libratory, giggot, burry and 6 more...
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missanthropist Adjective. Description of one in appearance & mannerism. Rough, boorish, uncouth, shaggy, unkempt. May 16, 2008
evin290 adj. prickly Dec 29, 2007