Noun: yure
Sample Sentences
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Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt. [1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:]
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Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red. [1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics:]
Nouns inflected like yure
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ȝowre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder. See: Middle English Nouns '
ȝowre', Old Norse Nouns '
júr'.