yure
English
Etymology 1
Determiner
yure
- Eye dialect spelling of your.
Etymology 2
Noun
yure (uncountable)
- (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
Noun
yure (plural yures)
Anagrams
Middle English
Determiner
yure
- Alternative form of youre
References
- “your (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.
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