stoor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɔː/, /stʊə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /stɔɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː, -ʊə
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian shtir (“to ford, wade across”). See stir.
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Verb edit
stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To stir up, as liquor.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To sprinkle.
Noun edit
stoor (plural stoors)
- (UK dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
- (UK dialectal) A gush of water.
- (UK dialectal) Spray.
- (UK dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.
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Etymology 2 edit
See stour.
Adjective edit
stoor (comparative stoorer or more stoor, superlative stoorest or most stoor)
- Alternative form of stour
- 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 2, page 148:
- A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.
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stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)
- (transitive) to store, to storage
- (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)
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stoor (plural [please provide])
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stoor
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stoor
- Alternative spelling of stour (large)
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?
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