English

Alternative forms

• surquidry

Noun

surquedry ‎(plural surquedries)

1. (obsolete) Overweening pride; arrogance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     They were faire Ladies, till they fondly striu'd / With th'Heliconian maides for maistery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu'd / Of their proud beautie, and th'one moyity / Transform'd to fish, for their bold surquedry [...].