ooree

Yola

Alternative forms

• oree, thooree

Etymology

Clipping of anooree.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːˈɾiː/, /ðuːˈɾiː/

Pronoun

ooree

1. another
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 32:

     A war cowdealeen wi ooree.

     They were scolding with one another.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 36:

     Draugh a ooree, or Draugh a thooree.

     Throw one another.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 60:

     Pa ooree.

     Upon each other.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 60