sorn

verb

(intr, often foll by on or upon) Scot to obtain food, lodging, etc, from another person by presuming on his generosity

Word Origin

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

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Examples from the Web for sorn

Historical Examples

We only once met with the cockchafer in Scotland, at Sorn, in Ayrshire.
Insect Architecture
James Rennie
Davas, was a word, too, and ta- was a common prefix; sorn and hulva were both common words.
Omnilingual
H. Beam Piper
Mr. Alexander Peden was born in the parish of Sorn in the shire of Air.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies)
John Howie
The grave-digger of Sorn, Ayrshire, was as selfish and as mean a sinner as ever handled mattock or carried mortcloth.
Amusing Prose Chap Books
Various
I told her how Sorn had gotten careless with its hydrogen atoms and had blown itself over half of creation.
Zen
Jerome Bixby

sorn

Word Origin

Examples from the Web for sorn

Historical Examples

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

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

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

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

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