"smoor" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /smʊə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-smoor.wav [Southern-England] Forms: smoors [present, singular, third-person], smooring [participle, present], smoored [participle, past], smoored [past]
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ) Etymology: From Old English smorian, akin to Dutch and Low German smoren, German schmoren (“to stew”). Compare smother. Etymology templates: {{cog|ang|smorian}} Old English smorian, {{cog|nl|-}} Dutch, {{cog|nds|smoren}} Low German smoren, {{cog|de|schmoren||to stew}} German schmoren (“to stew”), {{m|en|smother}} smother Head templates: {{en-verb}} smoor (third-person singular simple present smoors, present participle smooring, simple past and past participle smoored)
  1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect, UK, Scotland) To suffocate or smother. Tags: Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive Synonyms: smore
    Sense id: en-smoor-en-verb-paOLB9iK Categories (other): British English, Scottish English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for smoor meaning in English (2.2kB)

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