puir

[poor, pyoor]

adjective

Scot.

1. poor.

2. pure.

puir

/ pyr, puːr /

adjective

1. a Scot word for poor

Example Sentences

"Indeed, one decent woman expressed her pity in an audible 'Puir things!' as she passed, but I was enlightened by hearing a pretty girl explain to her companion, 'Why that's the Alexandra limp! How ugly!'"

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She added that she and her old man "were no that puir but that they could afford to buy the dog that had been so faithful to their ain boy."

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Eh, sir," she said, telling the tale afterwards, "the lassie Priscilla was sae like her mither, my puir bairn that is noo singing psalms wi' the angels o' God, that I declare, my verra heart stood still, for I thocht that she had come back for yin o' the bairns.

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Two days and two nights we were at it, with the puir bonnie ship driftin’ helpless, an’ the great waves nigh breakin’ in her sides.

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He was a puir thing, the driver explained, who went wrong only four years ago.

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