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'Arryish
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English
Etymology
From en 'Arry ish.
Adjective
en colloquial dated raucously cheerful
en https://books.google.com/books?id=bFk_AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Arryish%22&pg=PA156 The Academy (periodical) The Academy London Yates & Alexander [Review of A Pink Wedding] William Wallace Feb 28 1880 408 (N.S.) 17 0269-333X 156 He has a fair stock of somewhat 'Arryish animal spirits, but no real humour. He seems to think the Moltbury family "good fun," but, with the exception of little Violet, they are a set of grinning imbeciles that would be hissed off the boards of any respectable theatre, even in the pantomime season.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=Xi-YShOs9IYC&dq=%22Arryish%22&pg=PA241 The Theatre (magazine) The Theatre London Simpkin & Marshall Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Five Years of Progress W. A. Lewis Bettany 39311418 May 1 1894 23 (N.S.) 241 The hero is not a gentleman, but a cad of 'Arryish proclivities, the heroine an exasperating little fool with a mission to touch pitch. You can't construct tragedy out of such incongruous material as this.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=AHJBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA22&dq=%22arryish+departure%22 Nana (novel) Nana w:Émile Zola Victor Plarr (for the Lutetian Society) New York w:Boni & Liveright 1034881497 1895 1924 22 Masqueraders were trolling a catch, the chorus of which was accompanied with a tapping of their heels. This 'Arryish departure, which nobody had in the least expected, caused so much amusement that the house encored the catch.
Anagrams
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