sorn

/ sɔːn /

verb

1. intr, often foll by on or upon to obtain food, lodging, etc, from another person by presuming on his generosity

Word History and Origins

Origin of sorn¹

C16: from earlier sorren a feudal obligation requiring vassals to offer free hospitality to their lord and his men, from obsolete Irish sorthan free quarters

Example Sentences

We only once met with the cockchafer in Scotland, at Sorn, in Ayrshire.

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I told her how Sorn had gotten careless with its hydrogen atoms and had blown itself over half of creation.

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Mr. Alexander Peden was born in the parish of Sorn in the shire of Air.

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Davas, was a word, too, and ta- was a common prefix; sorn and hulva were both common words.

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The grave-digger of Sorn, Ayrshire, was as selfish and as mean a sinner as ever handled mattock or carried mortcloth.

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