Medieval English spoken form ofOld FrenchHenri.
Harry (pluralHarrysorHarries)
- A malegiven name.
c.1596–1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene v]:Yet weep thatHarry's dead, and so will I; / ButHarry lives that shall convert those tears / By number into hours of happiness.
1830,Mary Russell Mitford,Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::Henry now, what a soft swain your Henry is! the proper theme of gentle poesy; a name to fall in love withal; devoted at the font to song and sonnet, and the tender passion; a baptized inamorato; a christened hero. Call himHarry, and see how you ameliorate his condition. The man is free again, turned out of song and sonnet and romance, and young ladies' hearts. Shakspeare understood this well, when he wrote of prince Hal andHarry Hotspur. To have called them Henry would have spoiled both characters.
2010, Elly Griffiths, “The Janus Stone”, inRuth Galloway: The Early Cases: A Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries Collection, Hachette UK,→ISBN:'I suppose you think I should call himHarry,' says Ruth.
'Harry? No. Ever sinceHarry bloody Potter that's been a nightmare.[…]
2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, inCNN[1]:The digital ads open over a shot of Senate Minority LeaderHarry Reid and Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, while a narrator declares: “For years, it paralyzed Washington: Partisan political dysfunction.”
- A malegiven name from the Germanic languages.
- A malegiven name from French, originating as an Anglicization ofHenri
- Adiminutive of the malegiven nameHenry,Harold.
- (rare compared to given name)Asurname originating as a patronymic.
- (rare nickname)Adiminutive of the femalegiven nameHarriet.
Harry (uncountable)
- (slang) The drugheroin.
- (heroin):Tony Thorne (2014) “Harry”, inDictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]:Bloomsbury
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- a malegiven name from English, equivalent to EnglishHarry
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