wore
See also: WORE
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: wôr, IPA(key): /wɔɹ/
- (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/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: war (accents with the horse–hoarse merger); Waugh (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Verb
wore
- simple past tense of wear
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of wear
- 1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] , 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, 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.
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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
- (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 (“seaweed”), from Old English wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wair. Compare Scots ware and Dutch wier.
Noun
wore
- 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