vryery, noun
- Forms:
- Formerly also vrijerij.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans.
Wooing, love-making; vry, see noun at vry verb. Also figurative.
1920 S. Black Dorp 96If Anita said so it was all right. Vrijerij (courting) was to Van Ryn a clear, cut-and-dried business — no subtleties, no finesse, no bashfulness.
1980 Daily Dispatch 27 Feb. 13A veteran front bencher whose stream of old-style vituperation has his..colleagues in fits, spent most of his speech attacking...One should have known, from experience, that this, too, was a prelude to some vryery.
Wooing, love-making; vry, see noun at vry verb. Also figurative.
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