subs. (common).—That is ‘Harry’: a popular embodiment of the vulgar, rollicking, yet on the whole good-tempered ‘rough’ of the metropolis. Whence ’ARRIET = ’Arry’s ‘young woman.’ [Popularised by Milliken in a series of ballads in Punch.] ’ARRYISH = vulgarly jovial.
1874. Punch’s Almanack, ’ARRY on ’Orseback [Title].
1879. The Saturday Review, 9 Aug., 169. 2. When one has listened to one van-load of ’ARRIES, one has heard all of them. Ibid. (1881), 29 Jan., 148. 1. The local ’ARRY has torn down the famous tapestries of the great hall.
1880. WALLACE [Academy, 28 Feb., 156. 1]. He has a fair stock of somewhat ’ARRYISH animal spirits, but no real humour.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 27 Sept., 2. 2. £750 which it abstracts every year from the public funds to go a-’ARRY-AND-’ARRIETTING on the river.
