scur

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /skɜː/ (General American) IPA(key): /skɝ/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /skʌr/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /skøː/ (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /skeː/ (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /skɛː/ (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /skɜː(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) Homophone: scare (fair–fur merger) === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== scur (plural scurs) (veterinary medicine) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow. === Etymology 2 === Compare scour (“to run”). ==== Verb ==== scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred) (intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour. === References === “scur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs, sucr- == Aromanian == === Alternative forms === scuru === Etymology === Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro. Cognate with Sicilian scuru. === Adjective === scur m (feminine scurã, plural scuri, feminine plural scuri or scure) dark brown (usually of hair) (figuratively) sombre == Lombard == === Etymology === Akin to Italian scuro, from Latin obscurus. === Adjective === scur dark == Middle English == === Noun === scur (Early Middle English) alternative form of schour == Old English == === Alternative forms === sċēor === Etymology === From the merger of Proto-Germanic *skūrō and Proto-Germanic *skūraz (“rainshower”). Cognate with Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃuːr/ Rhymes: -uːr === Noun === sċūr m or f shower ==== Declension ==== masculine Strong a-stem: feminine Strong ō-stem: ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: schour, schoure, schowre, schoure, shour, shoure, shower, showre, scur, shur (Early Middle English)English: showerScots: shour, shouer, shoor, shooer == Old High German == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old Saxon skūr, Old English scūr, Old Norse skúr. ==== Noun ==== scūr m shower ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== Middle High German: schūre, schūr, schoure, schour German: Schauer === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”). ==== Noun ==== scūr m shelter ===== Descendants ===== German: Scheuer, Pennsylvania German: Scheier