wore

See also: WORE

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wô, IPA^(key): /wɔː/

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• (General American) enPR: wôr, IPA^(key): /wɔɹ/

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: wōr, IPA^(key): /wo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /woə/
• Homophones: war (horse–hoarse merger); Waugh (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Verb

wore

1. simple past of wear
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of wear
   • 1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] ‎^[1], William Coleman, act III, page 19:

     Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore […]

   • 1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125:

     Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé […]

   • 1997 August 4, Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS‎^[2], Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 138:

     But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately.

3. simple past of ware ("bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern")

Anagrams

• Rowe, owre, Ower, Wroe, wero, ower

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• warm, woare, woarm, wérme

Etymology

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz. Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

Adjective

wore

1. (Carcoforo) warm

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Middle English

Noun

wore

1. alternative form of wor (“seashore”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English wōre, from Old English wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wair. Compare Scots ware and Dutch wier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔːr/

Noun

wore

1. The seaweed spread on land for manure.

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[3], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136