What is the meaning of MARRY. Phrases containing MARRY
See meanings and uses of MARRY!Slangs & AI meanings
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."
Hitch is slang for marry.
Adj. Very pleased. E.g."She's chuffed to buggery that they are marrying before the baby is born."
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."
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.]
To marry.
An old naval expression meaning to be laid over a gun and receive a thrashing.
to get someone pregnant - "Joe knocked up Sally and had to marry her."
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.
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?]
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superl.
Betrothed; engaged to marry.
interj.
See Marry.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Marry
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.
v. i.
To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
v. t.
To marry; to give in marriage.
v. i.
To contact matrimony; to marry.
v. t.
To take for a wife; to marry.
n.
One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune.
v. t.
To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
v. t.
Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
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. i.
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
interj.
Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
v. t.
To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
n.
To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
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 marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
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.
v. t.
To match; to marry.
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