scorse

English

Etymology

Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔː(ɹ)s/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

Noun

scorse

1. (obsolete) barter; exchange; trade
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 55:

     And recompenst him with a better scorse.

Verb

scorse (third-person singular simple present scorses, present participle scorsing, simple past and past participle scorsed)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse […]

2. (obsolete) To chase.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Him first from court he to the citties coursed,
     And from the citties to the townes him prest,
     And from the townes into the countrie forsed
     , And from the country back to private farmes he scorsed

Anagrams

• Croses, Crosse, Secors, Sorces, cessor, corses, crosse, orcess, scores

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɔr.se/, /ˈskor.se/
• Rhymes: -ɔrse, -orse
• Hyphenation: scòr‧se, scór‧se

Verb

scorse

1. third-person singular past historic of scorgere

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: scór‧se

Adjective

scorse

1. feminine plural of scorso

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: scór‧se

Noun

scorse f

1. plural of scorsa