gery
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.