Word.ws English Dictionary

orra

orra adjective: superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.

Adjective

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

  1. (Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
  2. (Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable.
    • But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16

Forms of orra

comparativemore orra
superlativemost orra

Origin of orra

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Questions about orra

What does orra mean?
Orra means superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
What part of speech is orra?
Orra is an adjective.

Words near orra in the dictionary

  1. Orpingtons
  2. orps
  3. Orpustan
  4. Orr
  5. Orr's Island
  6. orra
  7. orrach
  8. orrachs
  9. Orrantia
  10. Orrantias
  11. Orrego

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: orra (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “orra.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/orra. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.