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coorie

coorie verb: to crouch, stoop down.

Verb

coorie (third-person singular simple present coories, present participle coorieing, simple past and past participle cooried)

  1. (Scotland) To crouch, stoop down.
  2. (Scotland) To snuggle, nestle.
    • ... or, for that matter, the newly ennobled representatives, many of whom have reached that tenure by coorieing up to the establishment throughout their career. I want to offer the House a flavour of the debate that took place.1997, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report
    • So we slept, coorieing down into the blankets under the tarpaulin. It was broad daylight when I awoke, and we had pulled in off the road, and were in the midst of woods. Father was giving the pony some hay, but I could see no sign of[…]2013 June 24, Betsy Whyte, The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman, Birlinn, →ISBN

Noun

coorie (uncountable)

  1. (UK) A lifestyle involving hearty cuisine (such as Cullen skink) and invigorating outdoor activities, popularized in the late 2010s by a book and tourism campaign which incorrectly presented it as a traditional Scottish concept. (Compare hygge.)

Forms of coorie

third-person singular presentcoories
present participlecoorieing
past participlecooried
pastcooried

Origin of coorie

From Scots coor (“cower”) + -ie (frequentative).

Questions about coorie

What does coorie mean?
Coorie means to crouch, stoop down.
What part of speech is coorie?
Coorie can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of coorie?
The past tense of coorie is cooried.

Words near coorie in the dictionary

  1. Coore
  2. Coorg
  3. coorganizer
  4. coorganizers
  5. Coorgs
  6. coorie
  7. Cooriemungle
  8. coorientable
  9. coorientation
  10. coorientations
  11. cooriginal

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