corrie

See also: Corrie

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic coire.

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Noun

corrie (plural corries)

  1. (Scotland) A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation.
    • 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XVI:
      Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!
    • 1972, Mountain, numbers 20-24, page 22:
      We spanned the dogs high up a corrie to the south of the ridge […]

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Scots

Etymology 1

From Scottish Gaelic coire (“caldron”); compare Irish coire.[1]

Noun

corrie (plural corries)

  1. a hollow between hills; a cirque on a hillside

Etymology 2

See coorie.

Verb

corrie (third-person singular simple present corries, present participle corriein, simple past corriet, past participle corriet)

  1. alternative spelling of coorie (“to stoop; to snuggle”)

References

  1. ^ “corrie”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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