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ourie

The English word “ourie” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
  2. Bleak; melancholy.

Etymology

From Old Norse úr (“precipitation”), from Proto-Germanic *ūrą, from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade form of *weh₁r- (“water”). Equivalent to dialectal Swedish urrigt (“chill; having the sensation of cold; shivering”, literally “urr-ie”) – urrigt väder = “chill weather” – partly stemming from urr (“the feeling of shivering”), an onomatopoetic word akin to brr, but potentially also derived…

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