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wor en · DET · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /wɔː/
  • /wɐ/
  • /wə/
  • (UK) audio

Etymology

Likely ultimately a borrowing into Northumbrian Old English from Old Norse várr (“our”) (from the same Proto-Germanic root *unseraz that produced Standard English our). Compare Scots wir.

Meanings

  1. (Geordie) Our.
    • If ye gannin oot the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy.

Deriveds

wor lass · wor kid

wor en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /wɔː/
  • /wɐ/
  • /wə/
  • (UK) audio

Etymology

From an altered pronunciation of was.

Meanings

  1. (East-Midlands, Northern-England, West-Country, dialectal) Was; were.
    • “I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie. 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213: