Meaning

adjective marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

adjective openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

originFrom Middle English warien, from Old English wierġan (“to curse, do evil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wargijan, from Proto-Germanic *wargijaną (“to condemn, curse”), from Proto-Germanic *wargaz (“criminal”). Doublet of warry.

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