Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scoury

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scoury
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.

adj

Suffering from scouring (diarrhea).

adj

Example Sentences

"'... scoury (tempestuous) night.'"
""... scoury night," he said, as he looked up into the dark, portentous sky."
"... scoury sky[…]"
"... scoury calves sometimes die. As with so many livestock disorders, prevention is the name of the game. At one time every calf I brought on the farm caught a wicked brand of scours. Evidently, previously purchased baby bovines had[…]"
"... scoury, weak, drawn up, and unpromising. I still continued to feed the cows heavily because I wanted them to grow the calves well. But I couldn't get the calves to do any good,[…]"
"... [the] scoury-looking fellow I saw you speaking to at the bridge-end that day of our Sacrament was one of that kind of folk?"

Etymology

From a dialectal sense of scour, "rain shower", from Old Norse skúr (“shower”), + -y.

Origin

Source language: Old Norse

Word Breakdown

Root: skúr

Questions

What does scoury mean?: Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.
Where does scoury come from?: It is traced to Old Norse.

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