thur

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See also: Thur and Thür

English

Adverb

thur (not comparable)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of there.
    • 2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      “Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

Pronoun

thur

  1. Eye dialect spelling of there.
    • 1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field‎[2]:
      "I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."
    • 1905, Joseph Hocking, Roger Trewinion‎[3]:
      Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *tsurja, from *ḱr̥H-, zero-grade of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to tie, plait”) (compare Ancient Greek καῖρος (kaîros, “row of thrums on the loom”), Armenian սարդ (sard, “spider”)).

Verb

thur (aorist thura, participle thurur)

  1. to plait, braid, interweave
  2. to knit
  3. to fence in, enclose
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