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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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.
Verb
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
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
See stour.
Adjective
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 and J Dodsley, , and J 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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Afrikaans
Etymology
Borrowed from English store.
Pronunciation
Verb
stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)
- (transitive) to store, to storage
- (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)
Noun
stoor (plural )
- shop, store
- storage, saving
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stoor
- inflection of storen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
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Middle English
Adjective
stoor
- Alternative spelling of stour (large)
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
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Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
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