harry. (verb) To torment or worry.
This appears not to be a dog word, deriving instead from the Old English here, for army. I have to say I was disappointed. I still feel that, origins aside, I can make an argument for this having some reference to dogs. “Harriers” are a breed of hounds who harry hares while helping humans hunt them. It's a specific breed sometimes described as looking like “a beagle on steroids.” It seems to me that harriers torment and worry their prey, the hares. |
1. Neufeldt, Victoria, ed. 1994. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English. 3rd College Edition ed. New York: Prentice Hall.
2. Auborn, John. 1995. Harrier Information. harrier.net. Accessed Oct 23 2001 from http:// www.harriers.net/ harriers/harrier_info.html. |