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stoor en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/stɔɚ/ (General-American)
/stʊə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/stɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.
From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.
Meanings
(UK, dialectal, intransitive) To move; stir.
(UK, dialectal, intransitive) To move actively; keep stirring.
(UK, dialectal, intransitive) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
(UK, dialectal, transitive) To stir up, as liquor.
(UK, dialectal, transitive) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome. 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC: