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ourie

ourie adjective: chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.

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 ourie

comparativemore ourie
superlativemost ourie

Origin of ourie

From Old Norse úr (“precipitation”), from Proto-Germanic *ūrą, from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade form of *weh₁r- (“water”). Equivalent to dialectal Swedish urrigt (“chill; having the sensation of cold; shivering”, literally “urr-ie”) – urrigt väder = “chill weather” – partly stemming from urr (“the feeling of shivering”), an onomatopoetic word akin to brr, but potentially also derived from ur (historical alternate spelling: urr).

Questions about ourie

What does ourie mean?
Ourie means chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
What part of speech is ourie?
Ourie is an adjective.

Words near ourie in the dictionary

  1. ouricuris
  2. ouricury
  3. ouricury palm
  4. ouricury palms
  5. ouricury wax
  6. ourie
  7. Ourimbah
  8. ourisia
  9. ourisias
  10. ourn
  11. Ournie

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