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scoury

adj

Etymology

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

  1. derived from skúr

Definitions

  1. Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.

    • '... scoury (tempestuous) night.'
    • "... scoury night," he said, as he looked up into the dark, portentous sky.
    • ... scoury sky[…]

  2. Suffering from scouring (diarrhea).

    • ... 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,[…]

  3. Shabby.

    • ... [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?
    • ... scoury coat, ...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA