It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 16th.
Today's word is Harry, spelled H-A-R-R-Y.
Harry is a verb.
To Harry someone or something is to harass or torment them by or as if by constant attack.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Mail on Sunday of London.
His side played like a team who understood the magnitude of a fixture laced with bitterness.
They hassled and harried their opponents from the first minute and were rewarded with the biggest margin of victory in this fixture
since 1956.
Harry has been part of the English language for as long as there's been anything that could be called English.
It took the form Harrigan meaning to make predatory raids, ravage, or wage war in Old English, and harryon meaning to plunder,
ravage, torment, pursue, or drag in Middle English, passing through numerous variations before finally settling into its modern spelling.
While its oldest senses were violent indeed, and Harry can still be used today to mean to make a pillaging or destructive raid upon,
one is just as likely today to encounter the word in less-martial-though-still-fraught context that involves someone or something being troubled or worried.
Holiday travelers may be harried, for example,
by numerous stresses such as traffic, flight delays, or lost luggage.
While sports teams are often said to harry one another,
while vying for control of the ball, puck, or what have you.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.