hure
Ainu edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hure (Kana spelling フレ, Cyrillic spelling хурэ)
- to be red
See also edit
retar / レタㇻ | ruretar / ルレタㇻ | kunne / クンネ |
hure / フレ | sikerpepeus / シケㇾペペウㇱ | |
hukinane / フキナネ | ||
nis iro / ニㇲ イロ | siwnin / シウニン | |
ruhure / ルフレ |
Daur edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Mongolic *hüre, compare Mongolian үр (ür), Dongxiang fure.
Noun edit
hure
Dutch edit
Verb edit
hure
French edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain; probably Germanic.
Pronunciation edit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /yʁ/
Noun edit
hure f (plural hures)
- head (of an animal, especially a boar or pig)
- pork brawn; head cheese
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “hure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
hure
- inflection of huren:
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English huru (“at least, especially”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
hure
- at intervals, frequent, at least, in any case
- hure and hure
- at intervals
- la hure
- at least
- 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtue:
- And ðo þe on annesse wuniᵹen ne muᵹen, hure and hure, ðanne hie willeð here ibede to godde bidden, swa derneliche swa hie muᵹen, swa don hie.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- especially, particularly; much less
- (Can we date this quote?), Hali Meidenhad:
- Ne kepeð he wið na mon, & hure wið his famon, nan half dale.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- truly, certainly, indeed
- 1225, Trinity Homilies:
- Nis nefre no stede to strene bicumeliche bute hie ben bispused rihtliche to-gedere, ne hure riht time þenne men fasten shal oðer halgen.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- even
- 1225, Lambeth Homilies:
- Ne mihte þer nan wiðstonden, ne prophete, ne patriarche ne hure Sancte iohannes baptiste.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Determiner edit
hure
- (chiefly Southern and southern West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
hure
- Alternative form of hire (“wages”)
Etymology 4 edit
Pronoun edit
hure
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)
Etymology 5 edit
Determiner edit
hure
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)
Pronoun edit
hure
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 6 edit
Noun edit
hure
- Alternative form of hore (“whore”)
Etymology 7 edit
Noun edit
hure
- Alternative form of ore (“ore”)
Etymology 8 edit
Determiner edit
hure
- Alternative form of oure (“our”)
Etymology 9 edit
Verb edit
hure
- Alternative form of hiren (“to hire”)
Etymology 10 edit
Verb edit
hure
- Alternative form of horyen
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
Verb form of Hur.
Verb edit
hure
- to fornicate
Shona edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
húre class 5 (plural mahúre class 6)