Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tarries or delays.
- noun One who hinders, or causes tarrying.
- noun Same as
terrier .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, tarries.
- noun (Zoöl.), obsolete A kind of dig; a terrier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
terrier . - noun A
layabout orloiterer ; Someone whotarries . - noun slang, derogatory, UK, ethnic slur A
Roman Catholic of Northern Ireland or Scotland - adjective
comparative form oftarry : moretarry
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in giving me a message a little while after he flew the track, and I instantly opened up and said, "Whistle, you tarrier, whistle!"
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An 'beside him on the splashboard sat a brindled tarrier pup,
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology Various
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Which the child's no more like one of ourn than a pug's like a tarrier-pup.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891 Various
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The next thing he had a holt o 'my coat-collar an' shuck me like a tarrier-dog shakes a rat.
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The cliverest lad of his hands and the best of his feet for twenty mile around -- as full o 'pluck as a tarrier an' as kindly-hearted as a wench.
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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When doggy men beyond ocean talk about a terrier, they usually pronounce it _tarrier_, and not _terrier_, as we mostly call him on this bank of the Atlantic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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You see, the old tarrier was crossing Saint Nicholas Avenue, with a big market basket full of provisions -- the family dinner, I suppose.
Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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'Now, would a tarrier do that -- a well-trained tarrier?
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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He heerd th 'noise, an' woke up an 'set his bull tarrier Lydia Pinkham on her.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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As this is a very tarrier of time, and he mocketh us and our gods, he deserveth to be brought to the most cruel death that we can for him imagine.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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