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owrie

owrie 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 owrie

comparativemore owrie
superlativemost owrie

Questions about owrie

What is owrie the alternative form of?
Owrie is the alternative form of ourie.

Words near owrie in the dictionary

  1. owords
  2. Owosso
  3. owre
  4. Owren's disease
  5. owres
  6. owrie
  7. ows
  8. owsen
  9. Owslebury
  10. Owsley
  11. Owsley County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: owrie (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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