glaur
Britishnoun
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- glaury adjective
Etymology
Origin of glaur
C16: of unknown origin
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."
From BBC
Glaur, gl�r, a Scotch form of glair.
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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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