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TARRY
Definition of TARRY
verb
To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English tarien, terien (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirian, tirġan, terġan (“to worry, exasperate, pain, provoke, excite”), from Proto-Germanic *terganą, *targijaną (“to pull, tease, irritate”), from Proto-Indo-European *derHgʰ- (“to pull, tug, irritate”). Cognate with Dutch tergen (“to provoke”), German zergen (“to vex, irritate, provoke”), Norwegian Bokmål terge (“to irritate, provoke”), Russian дёргать (djórgatʹ, “to pull, yank, jerk, pester”). Compare also Walloon tårdjî (“to be late, to be slow, to wait”). Compare typologically Czech meškat, Russian ме́шкать (méškatʹ) (akin to меша́ть (mešátʹ)), копа́ться (kopátʹsja) (akin to копа́ть (kopátʹ)).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TARRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TARRY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ARRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start TARRY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TARRY?
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