yure

English

Etymology 1

Determiner

yure

1. Eye dialect spelling of your.
   • 1891, Kate Sanborn, Adopting An Abandoned Farm‎^[1]:

     I've heard of yure old lot.

   • 1919, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Joy in the Morning‎^[2]:

     But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA."

Etymology 2

Noun

yure (uncountable)

1. (Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
   • 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine‎^[3]:

     Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.

   • 1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics‎^[4]:

     Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.

Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ȝowre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder.

Alternative forms

• ewer, ure

Noun

yure (plural yures)

1. (UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder

Anagrams

• Eury, Urey, eury-

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Middle English

Determiner

yure

1. Alternative form of youre

References

• “your (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.