glaur
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of glaur
C16: of unknown origin
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
An’ noo the winter winds complain; Cauld lies the glaur in ilka lane; On draigled hizzie, tautit wean An’ drucken lads, In the mirk nicht, the winter rain Dribbles an’ blads.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
There's word come, she says, 'at he's fa'en intil the verra glaur o' disgrace, funkin at something they set him til: na, he wudna!
From Heather and Snow by MacDonald, George
The middle o' the road cudna haud the can'le to the paidmints for glaur lest Sabbath.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
No son of mine shall be speldering in the glaur with any dirty raibble.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis
A clean and decent road's before me and a comrade for it, and I'm in the mood to take it, and here's the glaur about my feet!
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
