corrie
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of corrie
First recorded in 1785–95, corrie is from the Scots Gaelic word coire cauldron, whirlpool, hollow
Example Sentences
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Your tweets about last nights #corrie have moved me to tears... for various reasons.
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One person wrote: "Storylines don't get much tougher than this and #corrie are doing a fab job."
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Whilst tonight's #corrie was hard to watch I'm glad it was shown and hopefully if children were watching you use it as a way to teach them that racism isn't acceptable!
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It also warns that it is a place to avoid in winter because of cornices - large overhanging ledges of snow that form above the corrie.
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It also warns that it is a place to avoid in winter because of cornices, large overhanging ledges of snow, that form above the corrie.
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