glaur

/ ɡlɔːr /

noun

mud or mire

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Other Word Forms

glaury adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of glaur¹

C16: of unknown origin

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Example Sentences

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"Why girls of teenage years wish to eschew such adolescent delights as make-up, nice clothes, elaborate hair-dos and mooning about after boys of a Saturday afternoon in favour of brawling in the glaur of a wet Scottish playing field in the winter is beyond me."

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“Eh! see till the man that’s been coupit ower in the glaur!”

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No son of mine shall be speldering in the glaur with any dirty raibble.”

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On what abhorred an’ whinny scaur, Or whammled in what sea o’ glaur, Will she desert me?

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glaucous gull glaze

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