louring
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
Definition of louring
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of lour
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verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of lour
noun
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The act of one who, or that which, lours.
“1904-1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts Times are they fraught with peril, trouble, gloom; / We have to mark their lourings and to face them.”
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Etymology
From Middle English louryng, louringe, lowrynge, later variant of lourand, lowrand, lourande, lowrande, equivalent to lour + -ing. Cognate with Dutch loerend (“lurking, louring”).
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