different between scaur vs scur

English

Etymology

Dialectal form of scar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??/

Noun

scaur (plural scaurs)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A steep cliff or bank.
   • 1859, Walter Cooper Dendy, The wild Hebrides (page 67)

     There are "stags of ten" roaming abroad unstalked; and perchance that is a hart royal swelling his broad front on yonder scaur.

Anagrams

• Curas, arcus, carus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

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, Britain, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs, sucr-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• scuru

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Latin obsc?rus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.

Adjective

scur

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

Lombard

Etymology

From scuro.

Adjective

scur

1. dark

Old English

Alternative forms

• s??or

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, whence also Old High German sc?r, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?r/

Noun

s??r m or f

1. shower

Descendants

• Middle English: shour, schour, schur, showre, schowre, shower
  • English: shower
  • Scots: schour, shower

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sk?ru, from Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, whence also Old Saxon sk?r, Old English sc?r, Old Norse skúr.

Noun

sc?r m

1. shower

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: sch?re, sch?r, schoure, schour
  • German: Schauer

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sk?r? (“shelter”)

Noun

sc?r m

1. shelter

Descendants

• German: Scheuer, Pennsylvania German: Scheier