yure

English

Etymology 1

Determiner

yure

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

Etymology 2

Noun

yure (uncountable)

  1. (Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
    • 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:
      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.
    • 1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics:
      Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

Noun

yure (plural yures)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder

Anagrams


Middle English

Determiner

yure

  1. Alternative form of youre

References

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