scur

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /skɜː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /skɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /skʌr/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /skøː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /skeː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /skɛː/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /skɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophone: scare (fair–fur merger)

scur (plural scurs)

1. (veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.

Compare scour (“to run”).

scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
   • 1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain:

     Here he whistled , and the animal , who was scurring over the field , and occasionally kicking up his heels , instantly returned with a gentle neigh

• “scur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs, sucr-

• scuru

Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.

scur m (feminine scurã, plural scuri, feminine plural scuri or scure)

1. dark brown (usually of hair)
2. (figuratively) sombre

Akin to Italian scuro, from Latin obscurus.

scur

1. dark

scur

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of schour

• sċēor

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.

• IPA^(key): /ʃuːr/

sċūr m or f

1. shower

• Middle English: schour, schoure, schowre, schoure, shour, shoure, shower, showre, scur, shur (Early Middle English)
  • English: shower
  • Scots: shour, shouer, shoor, shooer

From Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old Saxon skūr, Old English scūr, Old Norse skúr.

scūr m

1. shower

• Middle High German: schūre, schūr, schoure, schour
  • German: Schauer

From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”).

scūr m

1. shelter

• German: Scheuer, Pennsylvania German: Scheier