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ourie.

Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.

    Scotland
  2. Bleak; melancholy.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

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).

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