smoorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 古期英語 smorian, akin to Dutch and Low German smoren, German schmoren (“to stew”). Compare smother.

発音

• IPA: /smʊə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

動詞

smoor (third-person singular simple present smoors, present participle smooring, simple past and past participle smoored)

1. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To suffocate, smother, or extinguish

   smoor the fire

   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Brigs of Ayr:

     The death o' devils smoor'd wi' brimstone reek

   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book II (The Queen of Air and Darkness):

     Then she smoored the fire, stretched herself on the big bed with a strange motion, and lay there in the darkness for a long time without sleeping—her body moving discontentedly.

参照

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

アナグラム

• Moors, Moros, moors, rooms