Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bemire; make slippery.
  • noun A Scotch form of glair.

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  • noun mud, slime

Etymologies

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Examples

  • Unfortunately as the sun warmed up the ground the nice crunchy surface turned into gloopy mud and when I got over the top of Harbour Hill, I found the downhill slope covered in patches of snow broken up by slimy, slippy glaur.

    Cosmonauts Tereshkova and Sharman 2009

  • Unfortunately as the sun warmed up the ground the nice crunchy surface turned into gloopy mud and when I got over the top of Harbour Hill, I found the downhill slope covered in patches of snow broken up by slimy, slippy glaur.

    Mmmm, new shoes 2009

  • The middle o 'the road cudna haud the can'le to the paidmints for glaur lest Sabbath.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • The scad of light from the door and the two lanterns lit up the yellow trampled glaur, and both the boys stripped in silence and stood on guard, and then started.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • You have seen the sort of man I mean: to-day generous to his last plack, to-morrow the widow's oppressor; Sunday a soul humble at the throne of grace, and writhing with remorse for some child's sin, Monday riding vain-gloriously in the glaur on the road to hell, bragging of filthy amours, and inwardly gloating upon a crime anticipated.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • A clean and decent road's before me and a comrade for it, and I'm in the mood to take it, and here's the glaur about my feet!

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • Oh the glaur it wis fylin 'and crieshin' the grun ',

    Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 1916

  • Here, spread yersel oot on yer belly, and slither along in the glaur;

    Ballads of a Bohemian 1916

  • [2] Speldering in the glaur -- sprawling in the mud.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Providence, than the provost himself, my lord though he be, or even the mayor of London, with his velvet gown trailing for yards in the glaur behind him, or riding about the streets in a coach made of clear crystal and wheels of beaten gold.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

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