Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
- Bleak; melancholy.
Wiktionary
- n. The pearl oyster.
- adj. ourie
Examples
“They believed them to proceed not from a fish, but from a shell, which is known by the Tamil name of (_oorie cooleeroo cradoo_, or) the "crying shell," a name in which the sound seems to have been adopted as an echo to the sense.”
“The uifgem breakers low* arid hearfit Her love caJ* up, a lifelefk oorie:”
“The toomness o the visitors’ corridor offered Paolo nae bield fae the buildin’s oorie atmosphere; Gallery 1083 wis an eerie airt wi or wioot passengers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oorie’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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mirier, soli, oorie, sangar, doum, cwm, jura, invar, lawine, shog, vavs, waw and 7 more...
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Interesting words
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concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Scrabble
Beginning a list of useful & obscure Scrabble words ...
veinulet, titania, lactean, joual, anomie, edacious, axite, taxite, dace, oorie, gowany, moire and 5 more...
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for the same
ichthyarchy, thalassic, nip-cheese, cerement, manavalins, rockweed, polder, semipalmate, blue peter, curragh, crowfoot, cat and 160 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 619 more...
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solace, implicit, lambent, noetic, aestival, anemone, opalescent, virago, rhapsody, sidereal, pelagic, ebullient and 51 more...
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Vowel Rich
Scrabble List: vowel dumps
aeon, aero, agee, agio, ague, aide, akee, alee, alae, aloe, amia, amie and 67 more...
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ghilliedev OED
ourie, a. north. dial.; now only Sc.
Forms: 4 ouri, 8–9 ourie, owrie, 9 oory.
Origin obscure: cf. Icel. úrig wet, f. úr drizzling rain.
Poor in appearance, shabby; dull, dingy; dreary, melancholy, languid.
c 1325 Metr. Hom. 88 He changed son his ouri wed, And forth into the halle he yed. 1785 Burns A Winter Night iii, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war. a 1810 Tannahill Lasses a' leuch Poems (1846) 145 Maggie was sitting fu' ourie an' blate. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 82 The winter rain⁓drap owrie fa's. 1865 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 261 That oory, dingy paint and paper. Aug 22, 2010