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▪ I. ˈscoury, a.1 Sc. Also 6 skowry, 9 scoory. Shabby, disreputable. Hence ˈscouriness.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxii. 15 The tod wes nowder lene nor skowry, He wes ane lusty reid haird lowry. 1792A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 27, I wha stand here, in this bare scoury coat Was ance a packman. 1814Saxon & Gael III. 58 (Jam.) That little whippy maun be casting up our poortith and your scouriness. a1894J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) 352 A ‘scoory-looking blade’, a broken-down looking tramp. ▪ II. † ˈscoury, a.2 Obs. rare—1. [? f. scour v.1 or v.2 + -y.] ? Scouring, bitter, sharp.
a1774Fergusson Farmer's Ingle Poems (1845) 39 May Scotia's summers aye look gay and green Her yellow hairsts frae scoury blasts decreed. |