stoor

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English

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Etymology 1

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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.

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Verb

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stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)

  1. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.
  2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.
  3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
  4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To stir up, as liquor.
  5. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
  6. (transitive, UK dialectal) To sprinkle.

Noun

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stoor (plural stoors)

  1. (UK dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
  2. (UK dialectal) A gush of water.
  3. (UK dialectal) Spray.
  4. (UK dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.
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Etymology 2

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See stour.

Adjective

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stoor (comparative stoorer or more stoor, superlative stoorest or most stoor)

  1. Alternative form of stour
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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English store.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)

  1. (transitive) to store, to storage
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)

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stoor (plural [please provide])

  1. shop, store
  2. storage, saving

Dutch

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Verb

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stoor

  1. inflection of storen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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Middle English

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Adjective

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stoor

  1. Alternative spelling of stour (large)