zurrn.
English regional (chiefly south-western).
= sir n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for a man
liefc907
goodmanOE
beausirec1300
sir1320
lede1377
fatherhood1461
gallant1488
fatherhead?a1500
Mr?a1640
gallantissimoa1681
mister1734
massa1766
sieur1772
stira1796
master1798
zurr1803
sieur1812
squire1828
guv'nor1843
Mistah1853
sor1891
suh1894
1803 G. Colman John Bull i. i. 16 Dan. I be ready, zur.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 118 I bag ye, zur, to take en vooäth.
1838 J. Grant Sketches London ix. 292 ‘Woy, yes, Zur,’ said a waggon-driver, with a short smock-frock... ‘That's how it is, Zur.’
1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Years 117 Beg pardon, zur, but can't abide here while they be a-reapin'.
1977 F. Parrish Fire in Barley iii. 30 A-ben sleepen in m'bed, zurr, 'tel cock d'crow for dawnen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1803- to be-lish-lash
- to be-mary
- to be-pamphletize
- to be-trash
- to beacon up
- to beal one's eyes out
- to bear a blow
- to bear a bob
- to bear a bone in one's hood
- to bear a brain
- to bear a construction
- to bear a etc to
- to bear a etc to formerly also of
- to bear a faggot
- to bear a foot
- to bear a great state
- to bear a great, high or lofty sail
- to bear a hand
- to bear a likeness to
- to bear a likeness to formerly also of
- to bear a low sail
- to bear a mark to one's grave
- to bear a month's mind
- to bear a part
- to bear a person a blow