smoor
English
Alternative forms
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)
- (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
References
- “smoor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -oːr
Verb
smoor
- inflection of smoren:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative