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blore

/blɔː(ɹ)/

blore verb: to cry; cry out; weep.

Verb

blore (third-person singular simple present blores, present participle bloring, simple past and past participle blored)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) To cry; cry out; weep.
  2. (archaic, dialectal) To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.

Noun

blore (plural blores)

  1. (obsolete) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
    • a most tempestuous blore1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...

Proper noun capitalized: Blore

Blore (countable and uncountable, plural Blores)

  1. A village in Blore-with-Swinscoe parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK137493).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of blore

Verb
third-person singular presentblores
present participlebloring
past participleblored
pastblored
Noun
pluralblores
Proper noun
pluralBlores

Origin of blore

From Middle English bloren, variation of bleren, blaren, from Old English *blǣran, *blārian (“to blare, bellow, cry”). More at blare.

Perhaps from blore above, a variant of blare, affected by blow. Compare also Gaelic and Irish blor (“a loud noise”).

From Old English blōr (“swelling”).

Words that rhyme with blore

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Questions about blore

What does blore mean?
Blore means to cry; cry out; weep.
What part of speech is blore?
Blore can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce blore?
Blore is pronounced /blɔː(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of blore?
The past tense of blore is blored.

Words near blore in the dictionary

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  2. blorbo from my shows
  3. blorbos
  4. blorbos from my shows
  5. blorch
  6. blore
  7. Blore's razor
  8. blored
  9. Blorenge
  10. blores
  11. bloring

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