Harry

Definition: Harry

Harry

Verb

1. Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked".

2. Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Harry" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a home ruler".

Date "harry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Harry

Attack

Assume the offensive, take the offensive; be the aggressor, become the aggressor; strike the first blow, draw first blood, throw the first stone at; lift a hand against, draw the sword against; take up the cudgels; advance against, march against; march upon, harry; come on, show fight.

Malevolence

Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.

Pain

Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Crosswords: Harry

Hungarian (Harry).

What you should be thinking is, what would Harry Rex do (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I'm sorry, Harry, I know this is hard for you. But you gotta admit if this was me you'd be laughing your ass off (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

I let Harry take those chains off you, you gonna be nice (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont. Based on the novel by Stephen King.)

Merry Christmas, Harry. (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes)

Nope. My friend Harry and I are saving up money for a pet store (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

'49 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Not because I'm tough like Dirty Harry (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits)

Harry and Tonto (1974)

My Name Is Harry Worth (1974)

Detective Harry Hard (1973)

Harry in Your Pocket (1973)

The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch (1972)

Come Back Liza (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Day-O (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Dolly Dawn (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

I Do Adore Her (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Jamaica Farewell (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Harry Callahan (Aperture Masters of Photography) (reference)

• Harry Potter Invisibility Crystals Potion Apothecary Kit (reference)

• Harry Potter Potion Of Drought Apothecary Kit (reference)

• Harry Potter Slithering Slime Apothecary Kit (reference)

• Harry Potter Troll Booger Potion Apothecary Kit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Harry Turner Puerto Rico Report (reference)

• International Harry Schultz Letter (reference)

• Ransom : Newsletter Of The Harry Ransom Research Center (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Harry Partch: Delusion of the Fury (reference)

• When Harry Met Sally: Music From The Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• David Daniels - Sento Amor / Harry Bicket, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (reference)

• Anthology of American Folk Music (Edited by Harry Smith) (reference)

• Enclosure Five: Harry Partch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• LEGO Creator Harry Potter (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Child with sequelae of polio. Quote from Dr. Harry Hull. Credit: CDC.

"Velocity Field for Fluid Flow Thru a Tube" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (the curvature), B (the inner diameter), or C (the speed of the fluid flow). Inspired by a drawing on page 3 of Harry Schey's "Div, Grad, Curl, and All That", 2nd edition. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

Captain Parker on the left next to Harry D. Seran - with two Army Majors On hunting expedition on Fuga Island Seran was Chief of Philippine Coast Survey at time Parker was Chief of Hydrography and Topography of C&GS on inspection trip. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Harry "Coffee" Garber On LYDONIA. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Launch 15 crew - Stan Jeffers, Abe Simmons, Harley Nygren, Jerry Gray, Ted Shanahan, and Harry Lantzy. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Profiles of submarine mountains discovered in the Gulf of Alaska by systematic Coast and Geodetic tracklines between 1925 and 1939. Pratt and Welker are the prototype "guyots" described by Harry Hess a few years later. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by H. W. Murray. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska". Published in Bulletin of the GSA, V. 52, 1941. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Photographs received from TIROS I on second orbit showed Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence River to the left. Gray areas in Gulf were interpreted to be ice by Dr. Harry Wexler of the Weather Bureau. This was first interpretation of sea ice, a major function of satellite imaging today. Monthly Weather Review, May 1960, p. 182. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Retired Lt. Gen. Harry A. Goodall presents the U.S. flag to the family of 2nd Lt. Richard Van de Geer during a full-honors funeral Oct. 27, at Arlington National Cemetery. Goodall was the wing commander at the time Van de Geer participated in the USS Maya.

Margaret Davis and Harry Husch shop in the International section of Giant Foods in Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA.

Soil scientists Harry Pionke (left) and Ron Schnabel examine a switchgrass stand. Relatively small buffer areas not only can protect nearby streams from agricultural pollutants, but also provide habitat for ground-nesting birds and forage for beef cattle. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In 1942, Dr. Harry Klinefelter and his coworkers at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston published a report about nine men who had enlarged breasts, sparse facial and body hair, small testes, and an inability to produce sperm. (references)

Business

For example under fiction, Tom Clancy appears in both in The New York Times, and Sunday Times top ten. (Not to mention Harry Potter!) Biographies also follow suit. There is also correlation between books and movies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

On November 19 in Mnangarhar Province, armed men forced four journalists, Harry Burton, Maria Grazia Cutuli, Julio Fuentes, and Azizullah Haidari, out of their convoy of vehicles and executed them. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti is located on 5, Harry Truman Blvd., Port-au-Prince. (references)

Human Rights

Togo

On June 6, former Human Rights Minister and Rally for the Support of Democracy and Development (RSDD) president Harry Olympio was arrested for the production and possession of explosives. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "harry": black Harry ♦ flash harry ♦ Harry Bridges ♦ Harry F. Klinefelter ♦ Harry Fitch Kleinfelter ♦ Harry Hotspur ♦ Harry Houdini ♦ Harry Lauder ♦ Harry Lillis Crosby ♦ Harry S Truman ♦ Harry Sinclair Lewis ♦ Harry Stack Sullivan ♦ Harry Truman ♦ Jens Otto Harry Jespersen ♦ Lighthorse Harry Lee ♦ old harry ♦ play old harry with ♦ Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder. Additional references.

Beginning with "harry": harry-style.

Ending with "harry": anti-harry, Crow-harry.

Afrikaans

afstroop (flay, ravage, skin, strip). (various references)

Albanian

Trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), Shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), Plaçkit (depredate, despoil, forage, hijack, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob, sack), Ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bedevil, bother, chaff, chip, dare, excite, guy, harass, Harrow, irritate, jolly, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, ruffle, tamper, tease), Bastis (foray, harass, raid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ناوش (scrimmage, skirmish, torment), ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), ‏ضايق (aggrieve, annoy, bully, distress, disturb, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, pick, rag, rattle, saddle, torment), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Опустошавам (Raven), Тормозя (Chevy, Hector), Грабя (Raven, Rob), Разграбвам. (various references)

Chinese 

掠奪 (plunder, raven, robbery). (various references)

Czech

Sužovat (afflict, beset, bother, harass, haunt, scourge), Pustošit (vandalize). (various references)

Dutch

uitschudden (ravage), afstropen (flay, ravage, skin, strip). (various references)

Esperanto

elrabi (ravage). (various references)

Farsi 

چاپیدن (Hurry, Loot, Plunder, Rob), لخت کردن (Doin, Pluck, Ransack, Rifle, Rob, Skin, Strip), ویران کردن (Demolish, Desolate, Destroy, Devastate, Gaunt, Havoc, Knockout, Ravage, Raze, Rubble, Ruinate, Throw), غارت کردن (Gut, Harrow, Maraud, Pillage, Plunder, Ransack, Ravage, Raven, Reave, Spoil, Spoliate), ازردن (Afflict, Aggrieve, Ail, Annoy, Distaste, Goad, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Lacerate, Mortify, Peeve, Prick, Rile, Tar), بستوه اوردن (Annoy, Beset, Harass, Hare, Haze, Hurry, Pester, Plague, Worry). (various references)

French

Harceler (harass, Harrow), Tourmenter (harass), Ravager (havoc). (various references)

German

Plagen (afflict, ail, badger, harass, infest, niggle, pester, plage, plague, rack, run, to afflict, to ail, to plague, torment, vex), Plündern (despoil, foray, loot, looting, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, Rob, sack, spoilt, strip, to despoil). (various references)

Greek 

έρρικοσ, παρενοχλώ (annoy, badger, disturb, harass, heckle, irritate, molest), Λυμαίνομαι, Βασανίζω (Harrow). (various references)

Hebrew 

ּהחריב, ּהטריד, ּהציק (Harrow), ּבזוז (Raven). (various references)

Hungarian

Harry, Zaklat (badger, bait, beset, harass, importune, inconvenience, molest, obsess, persecute, pester, to badger, to bait, to bother, to bug, to chivvy, to chivy, to fuss, to get into sy's hair, to harass, to harry, to importune, to inflict, to needle, to obsess, to persecute, to torment, to vex), Feldúl (reave, reive, to devastate, to forage, to harry, to ravage, to upset, to waste, upset), Elpusztít (consume, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, havoc, perish, slay, to blast, to canker, to consume, to desolate, to destroy, to devastate, to do away with, to harry, to kill off, to lay waste, to prang, to ravage, to scathe, to scorch, to waste). (various references)

Icelandic

eyðileggja (ravage). (various references)

Indonesian

mengganggu (annoyance, annoying, chicane, disturb, irritate, mob, molest, offend, vex, vexatious). (various references)

Italian

saccheggiare (despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, sack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ハトロン紙 (agreed, Armageddon, falling rapidly in big drops, good, haddock, hafnium, halation, halberd, Halley, ham, ham and eggs, ham and salad, Hamilton, Hamming, Hammond organ, hamster, Hanoi, happening, Harrier, hashed meat with rice, heart going pit-a-pat, honey, honeymoon, Honeywell, Hubbard, hum, humming, hurricane, kraft paper, resin, rosefish, splendid, style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform, to be in harmony, to harmonize, twitterpating, wonderful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハリー . (various references)

Manx

kiappal, Inry (Henry). (various references)

Pig Latin

arryhay.(various references)

Portuguese

torturar (abuse, agonize, gnaw, martyr, martyrize, rack, torment, torture, wring), saquear (clear out, depredate, devastate, foray, loot, maraud, pill, pillage, plunder, prey upon, ravage, raven, reave, reive, rifle, sack), pilhar (depredate, despoil, forage, foray, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey upon, ravage, raven, reave, reive, rifle, rob), fazer sofrer (hurt, inflict, pain, rack, torment, wring), devastar (depredate, desolate, devastate, devour, forage, harrow, havoc, lay waste, mow, overrun, prey upon, pull about, punish, ravage, reave, reive, waste), atormentar (abuse, afflict, agonize, badger, bait, devil, discomfort, fret, gall, gnaw, grill, harrow, lacerate, lay hold, martyr, mortify, obsess, oppress, pain, persecute, pester, pother, prey, rack, scarify, tantalize, torment, torture), assolar (depredate, desolate, destroy, devastate, havoc, infest, lay waste, ravage, reave, reive, waste). (various references)

Romanian

Pustii (desolate, devastate, forage, foray, gut, havoc, ravage, wear away), Jupui (abrade, bark, excoriate, flay, fleece, gall, graze, Peel, pill, raw, rip off, Rob, scratch, skin, soak, strip, wound), Jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, knock off, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, scathe, spoil), Dezgoli (bare, denude, divest, naked, nude, rip, strip, uncover), Dezbrãca (disarray, disrobe, Peel, strip, take off, throw off, undress), Chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring). (various references)

Russian 

Опустошать, гарри, Тревожить, Грабить (Raven, Rob), Совершать Набеги. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

harati (pillage, raven), pljačkati (despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, prey upon, reive, rob), kinjiti (ballyrag, plague, ride), bizgov. (various references)

Spanish

Hostilizar (harass), Hostigar (bait, harass, lash, press), pillar (catch out, despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, prey, ravage, worry), Enrique, Asolar (desolate, devastate, rase, raze, ruin), Acosar (annoy, beset, besiege, bombard, chase, chevy, chivvy, harass, hound, hunt, mob, persecute, pester, press, rush). (various references)

Swedish

Plundra (depredate, despoil, forage, foray, gut, loot, pick, pirate, plunder, ransack, rifle, Rob, sack), Plåga (afflict, aggrieve, agonize, agony, ail, bedevil, bother, crucify, curse, distress, excruciate, excruciation, fret, gall, harass, Harrow, infliction, jar, pain, pang, persecute, pester, pinch, plague, rack, ride, scourge, tear, terror, torment, torture, worry, wring). (various references)

Turkish

Yakıp Yıkmak (lay waste, vandalize), Yağmalamak (despoil, forage, foray, loot, maraud, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey on, prey upon, put to the sack, Raven, reave, sack, spoliate, sweep down on), Sinirini Bozmak (annoy, get on one's nerves, irritate, rasp, unman, unnerve, unstring), Eziyet Etmek (afflict, agonize, dragoon, excruciate, grind down, grind out, lead smb. a dance, maltreat, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, torment, torture, tyrannize, tyrannize over, wrong), Bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Ukrainian

чинити Напади, Турбувати (Potter), Спостошувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

quỷ xa tăng (arch-fiend, old harry, old nick, satan, tempter). (various references)

Welsh

Harri (Henry). (various references)

heimi-rih. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "harry": harrying. (additional references)

Words ending with "harry": charry, gharry. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Harry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hagry, Hanry, Harey, Hargrim, Harrhy, Harrs, Harvy, Hazri, Hercy, herry, hirry, Horrey, Horry, Khrayr. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hay, rah, ray, rya, yah, yar.

-3 letters: ah, ar, ay, ha, ya.

+1 letter: charry, gharry, horary, hurray.

+2 letters: archery, hurrays, phratry.

+3 letters: hagberry, harlotry, harrying, heraldry, honorary, hurrayed, hydrator, pyorrhea, triarchy.

+4 letters: airworthy, hackberry, hierarchy, hortatory, hurraying, hydrators, hyperarid, orography, porphyria, pyorrheas, rehydrate, shadberry, tetrarchy, thyratron, tracheary, treachery.

+5 letters: arrhythmia, arrhythmic, charactery, chartulary, chinaberry, churchyard, dehydrator, dysarthria, erythremia, granophyre, hereditary, honorarily, hydrocrack, hygrograph, hyperalert, hyperaware, hyperbaric, matriarchy, mycorrhiza, oropharynx, patriarchy, porphyrias, rehydrated, rehydrates, renography, roadworthy, rubythroat, serigraphy, squirarchy, thyratrons, trierarchy, xerography, yarborough.