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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englisheri(“fearful”), fromOld Englishearg(“cowardly, fearful”), fromProto-West Germanic*arg, fromProto-Germanic*argaz. Akin toScotsergh, argh from the same Old English source.Doublet ofargh.

Adjective

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eerie (comparativeeerier,superlativeeeriest)

  1. Inspiringfear, especially in amysterious orshadowyway;strange,weird.
    Synonyms:creepy,spooky;see alsoThesaurus:strange
    Theeerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
    • 1899 February,Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […],→OCLC, part I,page200:
      Aneerie feeling came over me.
    • 1943, H. Lorna Bingham,The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page13, column 2:
      Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly theeerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]
    • 1962, “Monster Mash”,Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
      I was working in the lab late one night / When my eyes beheld aneerie sight / For my monster, from his slab, began to rise / And suddenly, to my surprise / He did the Mash / He did the Monster Mash.
    • 2023 June 7, Samira Asma-Sadeque, “‘It’s too much’: New Yorkers don masks or stay inside amid smog crisis”, inThe Guardian‎[1],→ISSN:
      The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in aneerie quiet.
  2. (Scotland)Frightened,timid.
    • 1883, George MacDonald,Donal Grant:
      She began to feeleerie.
    • 1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:
      'It is my business to read the hearts o' men,' said the other. 'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growingeerie.
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Translations
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inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way
frightened, timid—see alsofrightened,‎timid
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Noun

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eerie (pluraleeries)

  1. An eeriecreature orthing.
    • 1880, Charles Martin Newell,Kalani of Oahu: An Historical Romance of Hawaii, page255:
      Other of these terribleEeries began now to congregate beneath the canoe, taking courage by the example of their cowardly companion, all alike curious about this charming visitant in the upper world.
    • 2013, Robert Silverberg, “A Science-Fiction Garden”, inReflections and Refractions:
      I tell you it's weirdsville down there, a spaced-out botanical Twilight Zone of creepies, crawlies,eeries, and ghastlies.
    • 2017 September/October, Catherynne M. Valente, “Down and Out in R'lyeh”, inUncanny Magazine, number18, page41:
      Just a couple ofeeries looking to get squamous, to swipe a little snatch of wholesome fun from the funktacular funerary fundament belonging to the Big Boss, a hit big enough to drop our brains out the bottoms of our various appendages and forget the essential, unalterable, sanity-shearing truth of our watery and unfleeling cosmos: R'lyehsucks.
    • 2021, Steve Conoboy,Refrain Of The Fallen:
      If circumstances were even slightly different, I would allow myeeries to descend upon you and do as they pleased. After what your two friends caused here the last time, you're lucky I'm managing to hold them back at all.

Etymology 2

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Seeeyrie.

Noun

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eerie (pluraleeries)

  1. Alternative spelling ofeyrie.
    • 1884, Gordon Stables,O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas, page114:
      I'm not sure, indeed, that we didn't scare the eagles from theireeries; at all events we thought we did.
    • 1910, Hans Adolf Erwein Max graf von Königsmarck, P. H. Oakley Williams,A German Staff Officer in India:
      They hang suspended over precipices, these rockyeeries of grim birds of prey that bequeath their appetite for murder and loot to their brood.
    • 1912 December, Joseph Stutzin, “The Children of the Eagle”, in Israel Goldberg, transl.,The Maccabæan: A Magazine of Jewish Life and Letters, volume22, number 6, page184:
      Of the heavenly azure, and of theeeries suspended on the highest rocks they had indeed heard something, but they had never seen them, and in spite of their wishes it was no longer the old keen home-sickness of the old eagles.
    • 1914, Walter Bloem,The Iron Year, page78:
      What was it that had driven them forth from their wooded mountaineeries to wait and watch for that one short moment, when the figure of an old man clad in a plain black military tunic would become visible at the saloon-window of a crawling train, to watch a wrinkled hand wave a fleeting greeting?
    • 1932, Nina Larrey Duryea,Mallorca the Magnificent, page26:
      But his army reached Buñola at the head of the pass, and at once, like a whirlwind, the Moors swept down from theireeries and gave battle.
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