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▪ I. lurry, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈlʌrɪ|
Forms: 6 lerrie, 7 lirrie, -y, lurrie, 7–8 lurrey, 7, 9 dial. lerry, 9 dial. larry, lorry, 7– lurry.
[Shortened from liripoop: cf. quots. c 1580, 1589.]
1. Something said by rote; a lesson, set speech, ‘patter’; fig. a cant formula. Obs. exc. dial.
c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears v. vii. 28 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897) 50 But I sent the knaves packinge I taught then [sic] thier lerrie & thier poop to for thier knacking. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1590) 16 Why haue you not taught some of those Puppes their lerrie? 1602Middleton Blurt iii. iii. F, Wee'll hencefoorth neuer goe to a cunning woman, since men can teach vs our lerrie. 1625Heylin Microcosmus i. (ed. 2) 197 Hauing learned her lirrie of that Frier-monger, she composed an order of Religious Virgins. 1641Milton Reform. 3 Then was the Priest set to con his motions, and his Postures, his Liturgies, and his Lurries. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋60 Hear and learn the Galenicall Lurrey. 1669Bp. Hopkins Serm. 1 Pet. ii. 12 (1685) 63 They had not learnt that lirry, that the saints are the only Lords of the world. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 220 He..begins his Lurrey. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VI. xvii. 101 Almost every shepherd..will..very likely plead: Such a Man tried a Thing, and it did no Good; [etc.] This is the common Lirry. 1887Kentish Gloss., Lerry, the ‘part’ which has to be learnt by a mummer who goes round championing. Lorry, Lurry, jingling rhyme; spoken by mummers and others.
2. A confusion of voices; babel, hubbub, outcry. Obs. exc. dial. (Cf. larry n.1)
c1649Bp. Guthry Mem. (1702) 126 Notwithstanding the Lurry which had been express'd upon the first hearing of it, yet when the Convention of Estates assembled..not so much as one Man in all the City was heard to speak against it. 1690Andros Tracts II. 57 The Lerry, Dinn, and Vociferations, which these Addressers make here. 1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 4 Mar., When this parliament lurry is over, I will endeavour to steal away. 1724― Drapier's Lett. vi. Wks. 1761 III. 111 Finding the whole town in a lurry, with bells, bonfires, and illuminations. 1776J. Adams Wks. 1854 IX. 421 The election..was carried on, amidst all this lurry, with the utmost decency and order.
3. A confused assemblage (of persons) or mass (of things). Obs. exc. dial.
1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 135 And is the lurry of lawyers quite worn out? Ibid. 187 Such a lurry and rable of poore farthing Friers. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 464 In lieu whereof Antichrist brings in an heap and lurry of Superstitious Opinions, Rites and Ordinances. 18..T. C. Peter MS. Coll. Cornish Wds. (E.D.D.), Thare ware sum lurry o' peepul theeare.
†4. Looseness (of the bowels). [Cf. lurry adj., ‘of cows suffering from looseness’ (Wiltsh. Gloss.).]
1689T. Plunket Char. Gd. Commander 13 Such a lerry did possess his breech.
▪ II. † ˈlurry, n.2 slang. Obs.
[Cf. lour n.2]
(See quots.)
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 11 But if the Cully naps us, And the Lurries from us take. Explan. note, Lurries, Mony, Watch, Ring, or any other moveable. Ibid. 191 The fifth is a Glasier, who when he creeps in: To pinch all the Lurry, he thinks it no sin. 1676Coles, Lurries, c[ant], all manner of cloaths. a1700in B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew.
▪ III. lurry, v. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈlʌrɪ|
1. trans. To carry or drag along (a heavy body, a person, child); to ‘lug’. Also, to drive by worrying. Now dial. (see E.D.D.).
1664Cotton Scarron. 33 Seven lordly tups he wounded Mortal..These to his hungry mates he lurries. (Pray what's his due that Mutton worries?) 1879Cumbld. Gloss. Suppl. s.v., Tak t' dog and lurry them sheep away.
2. absol. or intr. To push about, struggle.
1804Anderson's Cumberld. Ball. 91 They fit, lugg'd, and lurry'd, aw owre blood and batter. Ibid. (1807) 142 The youngermak lurried ahint them.
▪ IV. lurry, lurtch, lury, lus
see lorry n., lurch, lory, luce1. |