Manx

Alternative forms

• Gorree

Proper noun

Gorry m

1. A male given name, Manx equivalent to Godfrey, Anglicized as Orry or Godred.

Mutation

English

Interjection

gorry

1. (archaic, euphemistic) God!
   • 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs), The Village Watch-Tower:

     She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside."

   • 1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories:

     "By gorry!" says I; "you're right.

   • 1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again:

     No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!