Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

orra

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables: or-ra
IPA

4

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.

adj

Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable.

Example Sentences

"But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]"

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Inflected Forms

more orra (comparative) most orra (superlative)

Questions

What does orra mean?: Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
Where does orra come from?: Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

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