scur

See also: ščur and ščúr

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɜː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Noun

scur (plural scurs)

1. (veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.

Etymology 2

Compare scour (“to run”).

Verb

scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
   • 1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain:

     Here he whistled , and the animal , who was scurring over the field , and occasionally kicking up his heels , instantly returned with a gentle neigh

References

• “scur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs, sucr-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• scuru

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.

Adjective

scur m (feminine scurã, plural scuri, feminine plural scuri or scure)

1. dark brown (usually of hair)
2. (figuratively) sombre

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian scuro, from Latin obscurus.

Adjective

scur

1. dark

Middle English

Noun

scur

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of schour

Old English

Alternative forms

• sċēor

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuːr/

Noun

sċūr m or f

1. shower

Descendants

• Middle English: schour, schoure, schowre, schoure, shour, shoure, shower, showre; scur, shur (Early Middle English)
  • English: shower
  • Scots: shour, shouer, shoor, shooer

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old Saxon skūr, Old English scūr, Old Norse skúr.

Noun

scūr m

1. shower

Declension

Declension of scūr (masculine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	scūr	scūri
accusative	scūr	scūri
genitive	scūres	scūro
dative	scūre	scūrim, scūren
instrumental	scūru	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: schūre, schūr, schoure, schour
  • German: Schauer

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”).

Noun

scūr m

1. shelter

Descendants

• German: Scheuer, Pennsylvania German: Scheier