smirr
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]smirr (plural smirrs)
- (Scotland) Fine rain; drizzle. Fine drizzle, lighter than drizzle that hings in the air and does not actually precipitate....
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 499:
- The man was dead but Kidd aimed the gun once more and a light mist sprayed his cheeks like a cool smirr of rain.
Verb
[edit]smirr (third-person singular simple present smirrs, present participle smirring, simple past and past participle smirred)
- (Scotland, intransitive) To drizzle; to rain finely.
- 2014, William McIlvanney, The Papers of Tony Veitch:
- The queue was about the size of a small football crowd and in the smirring rain it should have been a formula for misery. But the place was jumping joyously.
- (Scotland, transitive) To cover with fine rain.
- 2022, John MacKay, The Road Dance:
- Rain clouds smirred the horizon, but for now the grey mists above were content to drift on.
Scots
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Noun
[edit]smirr (plural smirrs)