stoor

See also: Stöör

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɔː/, /stʊə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stɔɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː, -ʊə

Etymology 1

From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian shtir (“to ford, wade across”). See stir.

Alternative forms

• stour

Verb

stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.
3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To stir up, as liquor.
5. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
6. (transitive, UK dialectal) To sprinkle.

Noun

stoor (plural stoors)

1. (UK dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
2. (UK dialectal) A gush of water.
3. (UK dialectal) Spray.
4. (UK dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.

Derived terms

• stoorey
• stoory

Etymology 2

See stour.

Adjective

stoor (comparative stoorer or more stoor, superlative stoorest or most stoor)

1. Alternative form of stour
   • 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 2, page 148:

     A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.

Derived terms

• stoorness

See also

• stoor worm

Anagrams

• Toors, torso, rotos, ostro, toros, Oorts, roost, Sorto, roots

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)

1. (transitive) to store, to storage
2. (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)

Noun

stoor (plural [please provide])

1. shop, store
2. storage, saving

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stoːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oːr

Verb

stoor

1. inflection of storen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• soort

Middle English

Adjective

stoor

1. Alternative spelling of stour (large)
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)