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spurrier

UK/ˈspʌɹiə(ɹ)/US/ˈspɝɹiɚ/

spurrier noun: a maker of spurs.

Noun

spurrier (plural spurriers)

  1. (dated) A maker of spurs.
    • Gods so; my Spurrier! put 'em on Boy, quickly1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene...
    • saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
    Synonyms:
    spurmaker

Proper noun capitalized: Spurrier

Spurrier (plural Spurriers)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a spurrier.

Synonyms of spurrier

Forms of spurrier

Noun
pluralspurriers
Proper noun
pluralSpurriers

Origin of spurrier

From Middle English sporiere; equivalent to spur + -ier.

English surname, from the noun spurrier (“maker of spurs”).

Questions about spurrier

What does spurrier mean?
Spurrier means a maker of spurs.
What part of speech is spurrier?
Spurrier can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce spurrier?
Spurrier is pronounced /ˈspʌɹiə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of spurrier?
The plural of spurrier is spurriers.

Words near spurrier in the dictionary

  1. spurrest
  2. spurreth
  3. spurrey
  4. spurreys
  5. spurrial
  6. spurrier
  7. spurriers
  8. spurries
  9. spurring
  10. spurring on
  11. spurrings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spurrier (page history and authors); Spurrier (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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