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Yes. The word pry is a Scrabble US word. The word pry is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Definitions and meaning of pry

pry

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

The verb is inherited from Middle English prien, pryen (“to look closely, peer into, pry, spy”) [and other forms], from Old English *prīwan, *prēowian (“to look narrowly, to squint at”), attested by Old English beprīwan, beprēwan (“to wink”); further etymology unknown, but probably akin to Old English *prēowot (“closing of the eyes”), attested only in combination – compare prēowthwīl (“blink or twinkling of an eye, moment”), princ (“a wink”): see prink.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

pry (third-person singular simple present pries, present participle prying, simple past and past participle pried)

  1. (intransitive)
    1. To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
    2. (figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.
Derived terms
  • pryer
  • prying (noun)
  • pryingly
Translations

Noun

pry (plural pries)

  1. An act of prying; a close and curious look.
    Synonym: prying
  2. A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker.
    Synonym: (chiefly US) Paul Pry
Related terms
  • Paul Pry (predates sense 2)
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Etymology 2

The noun is probably a back-formation from prise, prize (“tool for levering, lever”), construed as the plural of pry.

The verb is either derived from the noun, or is a back-formation from prise (“to force open with a lever”), construed as pries, the third-person singular present form of pry.

Noun

pry (plural pries)

  1. (East Anglia, US) A tool for levering; a crowbar, a lever.
    Synonyms: (both chiefly historical) prise, prize, prybar, pry bar
Translations

Verb

pry (third-person singular simple present pries, present participle prying, simple past and past participle pried) (transitive)

  1. To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
  2. (figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
Derived terms
  • prybar, pry bar
Translations

References

Anagrams

  • pyr-

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Alternative forms

  • praie

Etymology

From Middle English preien, from Anglo-Norman preier, from Old French proiier, from Latin precor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɾiː/

Verb

pry (simple past pryet)

  1. to pray

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63

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