smoor

English

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Etymology

From Old English smorian, akin to Dutch and Low German smoren, German schmoren (to stew). Compare smother.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smʊə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Verb

smoor (third-person singular simple present smoors, present participle smooring, simple past and past participle smoored)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To suffocate, smother, or extinguish
    smoor the fire
    • 1786, Robert Burns, The Brigs of Ayr:
      The death o' devils smoor'd wi' brimstone reek

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːr

Verb

smoor

  1. inflection of smoren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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