scur

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɜː(ɹ)/

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

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• scuru

Etymology

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

Adjective

scur

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

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Old English

Alternative forms

• sċēor

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuːr/

Noun

sċūr m or f

1. shower

Descendants

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

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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	scūren
instrumental	scūru	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: schūre, schūr, schoure, schour
  • German: Schauer

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”)

Noun

scūr m

1. shelter

Descendants

• German: Scheuer, Pennsylvania German: Scheier