glaur

From Scots glaur, from Middle Scots glar, of unknown origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡlaʊə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡlaʊɚ/

glaur

1. Mud, slime, mire.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:

     ’twas all there in the Stars, the whole miserable story, but did I pay attention? Nooaahh...I was regretting the Sixpence, a fool with his eyes in the glaur.

• Graul, Gural, Lugar, gular, rugal