yure

det, noun — 3 senses

yure

det
1

Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of your.

  • I've heard of yure old lot.1891, Kate Sanborn, Adopting An Abandoned Farm:
  • But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA."1919, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Joy in the Morning:

yure

noun
1

Yorkshire hair

  • Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:
  • Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics:

yure

noun

Etymology From Middle English ȝowre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder.

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