stoor

British  

/ stuːr /

noun

1. a variant of stour

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stoor

"What in the name of common sense is the matter with you?" said he, gettin' up, an' shakin' the stoor aff his hat.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

The cudgel in my nieve did shake, Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake, When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick—quack—                    Amang the springs, Awa ye squatter'd, like a drake,                    On whistling wings.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

An shoo profiside trubble an care,    Wor i' stoor at noa far distant day, An shoo muttered "poor Sal, aw declare,    Tha's thrown thisen reight cleean away."

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley

He that blaws in the stoor fills his ain een.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

Each bristl’d hair stood like a stake, When wi’ an eldritch, stoor quaick—quaick— Amang the springs, Awa ye squatter’d, like a drake, On whistling wings.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

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