scur

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See also: ščur and ščúr

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɜː(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Noun

scur (plural scurs)

  1. (veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.

Etymology 2

Compare scour (“to run”).

Verb

scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
    • 1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain:
      Here he whistled , and the animal , who was scurring over the field , and occasionally kicking up his heels , instantly returned with a gentle neigh

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.

Adjective

scur m (feminine scurã, plural scuri, feminine plural scuri or scure)

  1. dark brown (usually of hair)
  2. (figuratively) sombre

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian scuro, from Latin obscurus.

Adjective

scur

  1. dark

Middle English

Noun

scur

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of schour

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sċūr m or f

  1. shower

Descendants

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old Saxon skūr, Old English scūr, Old Norse skúr.

Noun

scūr m

  1. shower
Declension
Declension of scūr (masculine i-stem)
case singular plural
nominative scūr scūri
accusative scūr scūri
genitive scūres scūro
dative scūre scūrim, scūren
instrumental scūru —
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”).

Noun

scūr m

  1. shelter
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