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sundry - 6 dictionary results

sun⋅dry

[suhn-dree]
–adjective
1. various or diverse: sundry persons.
2. all and sundry, everybody, collectively and individually: Free samples were given to all and sundry.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE syndrig private, separate, equiv. to syndr- (mutated form of sundor asunder ) + -ig -y 1 ; akin to sunder


sun⋅dri⋅ly, adverb
sun⋅dri⋅ness, noun

sun⋅dries

[suhn-dreez]
–plural noun
sundry things or items, esp. small, miscellaneous items of little value. Compare notion (def. 6).

Origin:
1805–15; n. pl. use of sundry
sun·dry   (sŭn'drē)   
adj.  Various; miscellaneous: a purse containing keys, wallet, and sundry items.

[Middle English sundri, from Old English syndrig, separate.]

Sundry

Sun"dry\, a. [OE. sundry, sondry, AS. syndrig, fr. sundor asunder. See Sunder, v. t.]

1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." --Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." --Shak.

With many a sound of sundry melody. --Chaucer.

Sundry foes the rural realm surround. --Dryden.

2. Separate; diverse. [Obs.]

Every church almost had the Bible of a sundry translation. --Coleridge.

All and sundry, all collectively, and each separately.

sundry 
O.E. syndrig "separate, apart, special," related to sundor "separately" (see sunder). Phrase all and sundry first recorded 1389; sundries "odds and ends" is first found 1755.

sundry

see all and sundry.

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