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dour, a. orig. Sc.|duːr|
Also 5 dowre, 6–8 doure, 6– dowr.
[ad. L. dūr-us, or F. dur hard (cf. dure).
Derivation from French is unlikely on account of the vowel, since F. u gives in Sc. not ū but ü (or ö). An early (11th or 12th c.) adoption of L. dūr-us, would suit phonetically; of this however we have no evidence.]
1. Hard, severe, bold, stern, fierce, hardy.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 170 [He] wes dour & stout. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 103 Dyntis dowre ware sene. 1513Douglas æneis ii. vi. [v.] 23 The dour Vlixes als, and Athamas. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 166 Thir legatis wes gevin ane doure answere be Marcius. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iv. 249 He led a dour and hard lyfe. 1794Burns Winter Night i, Biting Boreas, fell and doure. 1848Lytton Harold vi. i, Tostig is a man..dour and haughty. 1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 261 The dour, merciless intensity of a northern moorland..storm.
2. Hard to move, stubborn, obstinate, sullen.
c1470Henry Wallace iv. 187 Malancoly he was of complexioun..dour in his contenance. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. vi. 106 All our prayeris..Mycht nowder bow that dowr mannis mynd. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxviii. 76 Our men are dour men. 1816Scott Old Mort. viii, ‘He's that dour, ye might tear him to pieces, and..ne'er get a word out o' him.’ 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xvii, Thornton is as dour as a door-nail; an obstinate chap.
Hence ˈdourly adv., with hard sternness, stubbornly, obstinately; ˈdourness, hardness of disposition, obstinacy, sullenness.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Jacobus minor 337 Thai..in to durnes ay abad. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 918 To ding thame doun dourly that euer war in my way. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. 281 And fercely had fochtne thame, and dourlie dantount. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold iv, ‘Give me those letters, father’, she said dourly. 1882Sat. Rev. No. 1411. 629 Scotchmen..have the same caution..courage, and ‘dourness’ [as Yorkshiremen]. |