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oorie

oorie is the alternative form of ourie.

Meaning of ourie

Adjective

ourie (comparative more ourie, superlative most ourie)

  1. (Scotland) Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
  2. (Scotland) Bleak; melancholy.
    • Familiar with all the seasons he represents the phases of a northern winter with a frequency characteristic of his clime and of his fortunes; her tempests became anthems in his verse, and the sounding woods "raise his thoughts to Him that walketh on the wings of the wind"; full of pity for the...Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" (BURNS, ROBERT [1759-1796], Scottish poet)

Forms of oorie

comparativemore oorie
superlativemost oorie

Questions about oorie

What is oorie the alternative form of?
Oorie is the alternative form of ourie.

Words near oorie in the dictionary

  1. oordh
  2. Oordoo
  3. oorhodein
  4. oorial
  5. oorials
  6. oorie
  7. Ooriya
  8. Ooriyas
  9. Oorja
  10. Oorlam
  11. Oorlams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oorie (page history and authors); ourie (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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