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moories

moories is the plural of moorie.

moories is the plural of moory.

Meaning of moory

Adjective

moory (comparative more moory or moorier, superlative most moory or mooriest)

  1. Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy.
    • In Eſſex moory Land is thought to be the moſt proper, tho several other ſorts of Soil are eſteemed very good1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hoggy, moorish, quaggy

Questions about moories

What is moories the plural of?
Moories is the plural of moorie.

Words near moories in the dictionary

  1. Moorhouse
  2. moorhouseite
  3. Moorhouses
  4. moori
  5. moorie
  6. moories
  7. Moorilda
  8. Moorilim
  9. moorill
  10. Moorina
  11. mooring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moories (page history and authors); moory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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