Green’s Dictionary of Slang

plurry adj.

[Maori mispron.; but note McGill, Dict. of Kiwi Sl. (1988): ‘Partridge says it is from Aboriginal’s natural use of the word, OEDS says NZA slang, Turner thinks it a convention of journalists rather than Maori, in support of which was the slanguage of the character Hori in the bestselling book The Half-Gallon Jar’]

(Aus./N.Z.) a synon. for bloody adj.; also as adv.

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[Aus]H. Lawson ‘A Little Mistake’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 319: You plurry big tight-britches p’liceman, what for / You gibbit our missuses britches?
[Aus]Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 2 Mar. 3/1: ‘Where the plurryelyer rush— hic— rushin’ to?; Why you — hic— blanker, you’re drunk’.
[UK]Sporting Times 22 Feb. 1/4: You’re running against a lot o’ crabs—a good horse like you! Now, just for the sake of old times, show your heels to these plurry crawfish, will you?
[Aus]C.E.W. Bean Anzac Book 137/2: By this time [...] it waxed ‘plurry’ cold, even unto a fall of snow, and the erstwhile Land of Jacko did breed much ‘flue’ and ‘pneu,’ and it did seem as though the plagues of the ancient Gyppos had descended upon them.
[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 7 Oct. 205/5: I’ll ’ave a bit of you, yer big, frog-eatin’ dago! I’ll show you who won the plurry war.
[UK](con. WWI) ‘Sapper’ Shorty Bill 174: Very nearly falls into the plurry sap.
[UK]S. Horler London’s Und. 102: Too much like plurry work!
[Aus]Argus (Melbourne) Supp. 27 Dec. 2/4: The plurry town’s a plurry cuss, / No plurry tram, no plurry bus.
[UK]T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 62: ‘Not on your plurry life I wouldn’t,’ said Hone fervently.
[Aus]B. Wannan Fair Go, Spinner 80: Boss [...] that colt was so plurry frisky he bucked off his brand.
[NZ]McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 85/2: plurry bloody; pidgin in Australia and New Zealand.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].