overwordExplorer
ENGLISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

gurry.

A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.

    India · historical
  2. The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.

    India · historical
  3. A small fort.

    India
Where this word comes from

From Hindi गढ़ी (gaṛhī, “fort”).

noun
  1. Fishing offal.

    uncountable
  2. Diarrhoea.

    dialectal · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Origin unknown. Attested from the mid-nineteenth century. Perhaps derived from Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Compare Saterland Frisian Gorre (“muddy liquid; thick, liquid manure”), Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth”).

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

gurry has 5 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

gurry studiogurry workshello, gurry

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.