What is a leary?

What is a leary?

: suspicious, wary —often used with of leery of strangersShe seemed a little leery of the proposal.

What part of speech is lummox?

noun
noun Informal. a clumsy, stupid person.

How to spell leary?

Leary is a variant spelling that hasn’t been widely used in 100 years.

1. Leery is the correct spelling.
2. Leary is a spelling error.

What is the difference between wary and leery?

is that leery is cautious, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns while wary is cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.

What is a lairy girl?

Adjective. lairy (comparative lairier, superlative lairiest) (UK) Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.

What is the synonym of leery?

wary, cautious, careful, guarded, chary, suspicious, distrustful, mistrusting, dubious, sceptical. worried, anxious, apprehensive. heedless, trustful.

What is a lummox thesaurus?

Definitions of lummox. an awkward, foolish person. synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lump, nimrod, oaf, stumblebum.

Where did the word lummox come from?

lummox (n.) “clumsy, stupid man,” 1825, East Anglian slang, of unknown origin. Perhaps from dumb ox, influenced by lumbering; or from or related to dialectal verb lummock “move heavily or clumsily,” itself a word of uncertain origin.

What does posth mean?

Posthumous work, i.e. work pubd. after composer’s death. See opus.

Is Leery a scrabble word?

Yes, leery is in the scrabble dictionary.

What is an example of leery?

Leery Meaning If you feel untrusting or suspicious of a situation, you can use leery to describe how you feel. Here are some examples of leery in sentences. I am leery of cats because they always seem ready to pounce.

Why do people say weary instead of Leary?

People sometimes write “weary” (tired) when they mean “wary” (cautious) which is a close synonym with “leery” which in the psychedelic era was often misspelled “leary,” but since Timothy Leary faded from public consciousness, the correct spelling has prevailed.