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hurty

adj

Etymology

From hurt (“blue spot”) + -y.

  1. derived from *herutuz✻
  2. derived from hrútr — “ram (male sheep)”
  3. inherited from *hyrtan✻
  4. derived from *krew-✻ — “to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”
  5. derived from *hūrt✻ — “a battering ram”
  6. derived from hurter
  7. inherited from hurten
  8. suffixed as hurty — “hurt + -y”

Definitions

  1. Causing hurt

    Causing hurt; painful.

    • If people are scared of hurty words, don’t come and see comedy. It’s not as if I’m shouting it through your letterbox.
    • It's time this government told the police their job is to protect the public, not monitor social media for hurty words.

  2. Semé (strewn) with hurts (roundels azure).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hurty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA