fury

From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/, /ˈfjɔːɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊɹ.i/, /ˈfjɝ.i/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʉːɹi/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːɹi/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹi

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
   • 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:

     Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:

     The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.

2. Strength or violence in action.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎^[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […]!

3. An angry or malignant person.

Latin fur (“thief”).

fury (plural furies)

1. (obsolete) A thief.
   • 1625 (date written), Iohn Fletcher, [Philip Massinger], The Elder Brother. A Comedie. […], London: […] F[elix] K[ingston] for J[ohn] W[aterson] and J[ohn] B[enson], published 1637, →OCLC, Act III, scene (please specify |scene=i or ii):

     But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.

fury

1. alternative form of furie

fury

1. (South West Midlands) alternative form of fyry

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.rɘ/
• Rhymes: -urɘ
• Syllabification: fu‧ry

fury f

1. inflection of fura:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural