shoor

English

Noun

shoor (plural shoors)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of shower, representing dialectal English.
    • 1854, John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianae, page 195:
      ... shoors o' sleet?
    • 1871, The Gardner: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture, page 362:
      ... "shoors" of hail or sleet. Young Horty is about at his wits' end; he is aware that if he allows his fires to get low, and a more than usual long interval of cloud intervenes, his houses will be down to zero, and his master […]
    • 1888, J. Smith, The Dalbroom Folks, page 197:
      ... shoor o' pease cam on us when we entered the gallery, and I saw the prisoner wi' a stick and went to catch him, but I was struck on the back  […]

Adjective

shoor (not comparable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of sure.
    • 1905, Rex Beach, North of Fifty-three, page 110:
      Shoor I'll go.
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