wore

See also: WORE

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: wôr, IPA^(key): /woɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wô, IPA^(key): /wɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: wōr, IPA^(key): /wo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /woə/

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• Homophone: war (accents with the horse–hoarse merger); Waugh (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Verb

wore

1. simple past of wear
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of wear
   • 1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] ‎^[1], William Coleman, act III, page 19:

     Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore […]

   • 1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125:

     Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé […]

   • 1997 August 4, Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS‎^[2], Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 138:

     But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately.

Anagrams

• Rowe, ower, owre

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• warm, woare, woarm, wérme

Etymology

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz. Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

Adjective

wore

1. (Carcoforo) warm

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English wor, from Old English wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wair. Compare Scots ware and Dutch wier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔː/
• Homophone: w'aare

Noun

wore

1. The seaweed spread on land for manure.

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136