gery
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See gere (“childish behaviour”) + -y.
Adjective[edit]
gery
- Subject to frequent and sudden changes; variable, unpredictable.
- (of a person) Changeable; fickle.
- 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Knight's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:
- Right so kan gery Venus ouercaste The hertes of hir folk.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (of clothing) Faddish
- 1399, Mum and the Sothsegger:
- How þe while turneth With gyuleris, joyffull for here gery jaces.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- “geri, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2018.