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stoor

UK/stɔː/US/stɔɚ/

stoor verb: to move; stir. Also the alternative form of stour.

Verb

stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To move; stir.
  2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To move actively; keep stirring.
  3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
  4. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To stir up, as liquor.
  5. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
  6. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To sprinkle.

Noun

stoor (plural stoors)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A gush of water.
  3. (UK, dialectal) Spray.
  4. (UK, dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.

Also used as

stoor is also the alternative form of stour.

Forms of stoor

Verb
third-person singular presentstoors
present participlestooring
past participlestoored
paststoored
alternative formstour
Noun
pluralstoors
Adjective
comparativestoorer
comparativemore stoor
superlativestoorest
superlativemost stoor

Origin of stoor

From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.

See stour.

Words formed from stoor

Phrases with stoor

Words that rhyme with stoor

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Questions about stoor

What does stoor mean?
Stoor means to move; stir.
What part of speech is stoor?
Stoor can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce stoor?
Stoor is pronounced /stɔː/ (UK).
What is the past tense of stoor?
The past tense of stoor is stoored.

Words near stoor in the dictionary

  1. stoopless
  2. stoops
  3. stoopt
  4. stoopwork
  5. stoopy
  6. stoor
  7. stoor worm
  8. stoor worms
  9. stoored
  10. stooring
  11. stoors

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