What is the meaning of MARRY. Phrases containing MARRY
See meanings and uses of MARRY!Slangs & AI meanings
Clutching two parallel lines together in your hands and pressing them together, using the friction between the lines to hold them fast. When the ship's berthing hawsers are doubled-up, the second hawser is "married" to the first while a seaman takes turns on the bollard.
to get someone pregnant - "Joe knocked up Sally and had to marry her."
An old naval expression meaning to be laid over a gun and receive a thrashing.
Adj. Very pleased. E.g."She's chuffed to buggery that they are marrying before the baby is born."
Vrb phrs. To not be bothered, an expression of indifference. E.g."I couldn't give a kipper's dick who you marry, as long as I get an invite to the wedding." [Orig W. Midlands use?]
Beat the Devil around the Stump
To evade responsibility or a difficult task. "Quit beatin' the devil around the stump and ask that girl to marry you."
Verb. 1. To make pregnant. E.g." I knocked her up and now her father wants me to marry her." 2. To awaken.
to get someone pregnant - "Joe knocked up Sally and had to marry her."
To marry.
A marriage of convenience, male and female marriage usually pair men who like men with ladies who like ladies, they marry for mutual benefit. [Charles Laughton the gay star had a Lavender marriage with actress Elsa Lanchester in 1929, Charles had his male lovers and Elsa had her men lovers too.]
Hitch is slang for marry.
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v. t.
To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.
n.
One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.
v. t.
To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
v. t.
Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Marry
v. t.
To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
v. i.
To contact matrimony; to marry.
n.
The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
v. t.
To match; to marry.
interj.
Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
n.
To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
superl.
Betrothed; engaged to marry.
v. t.
To marry; to give in marriage.
v. i.
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
interj.
See Marry.
v. t.
To take for a wife; to marry.
v. i.
To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
v. t.
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.
n.
One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune.
v. t.
To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
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