yare

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However, there is another aspect of this word yare as in "to be afraid" of.

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  1. adjective Agile; lively.
  2. adjective Nautical Responding easily; maneuverable. Used of a vessel.
  3. adjective Archaic Ready; prepared.

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  • Now no more   The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip Yare, yare, good Iras! —  The Man Shakespeare
  • JG: The yare going to see a more powerful, stronger Guzman and do what I do best and I am going to make the people enjoy the fight. —  Doghouse Boxing News
  • Adults will be fed before children, since the yare, after all, bigger. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • However, there is another aspect of this word yare as in "to be afraid" of. —  Apprising Ministries
  • Banks will earn high profits right now because NIM (net interest margin, or spread between cost of financing and what the yare lending out at) is extremely high. —  GuruFocus Updates
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  1. Middle English, from Old English gearo, ready.

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  1. from Middle English yare, ʒare, from Anglo-Saxon gearu, gearo (gearw-), ready, quick, prompt, = Old Saxon garu = Dutch gaar, done, dressed (as meat), = Old High German garo (garaw-), Middle High German gare (garw-), German gar, ready, complete, = Icelandic görr, gerr, perfect (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded); cf. Anglo-Saxon earu = Old Saxon aru, ready, forms apparently related to the preceding, which must then contain a prefix, namely Anglo-Saxon gearu, from ge-, a collective or generalizing prefix, + earu, ready. For another supposed instance of this prefix absorbed with the following vowel, see go. The prefix is contained also in yearn.
  2. from Middle English yare, ʒare, from Anglo-Saxon gearwe, readily, quickly (= Dutch gaar = Old High German garo, garawo, Middle High German gare, gar, German gar = Icelandic gör-, ger-, görv-, wholly, quite), from gearu, ready: see yare, a.
 

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