英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈwaɪəɹi/

形容詞

wiery (comparative more wiery, superlative most wiery)

1. Obsolete form of wiry.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:

     Polymnia shall be drawn with her hair hanging loose about her shoulders, resembling wiery gold.

語源 2

Perhaps related to 古期英語 wær (“sea, pool”) or weir (at least one of which is cognate to Icelandic ver (“the sea”)), or to wearish.

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発音

• IPA: /ˈwɪəɹi/

形容詞

wiery (comparative more wiery, superlative most wiery)

1. Wet; moist; marshy.
   • 1810, Charles Vancouver, General view of the agriculture of Hampshire, page 459:

     […] for subduing heaths, moors, bogs, peat-mosses, and all soils abounding with large proportions of vegetable mould, and producing a rough, sedgy, coarse, and wiery herbage; but these coarse and unprofitable coverings once destroyed, it should never again be resorted to on lands possessing a sound dry bottom, […]

同意語

• fenny, morassy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy