yure
English
Determiner
yure
- 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."
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Noun
yure (uncountable)
- (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.
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Etymology 3
From Middle English ȝowre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder.
Alternative forms
- ewer, ure
Noun
yure (plural yures)
- (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder
Anagrams
- Eury, Urey, eury-
Middle English
Determiner
yure
- Alternative form of youre
References
- “your (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.