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Dour vs Bour - What's the difference?

dour | bour |

As an adjective dour

is stern, harsh and forbidding.

As a noun bour is

(obsolete) a chamber or a cottage.

dour

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Stern, harsh and forbidding.
  • Unyielding and obstinate.
  • Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

    • Synonyms

    * forbidding, harsh, severe, stern * (unyielding) obstinate, stubborn, unyielding * (expressing gloom) dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullen

    Derived terms

    * dourly * dourness

    bour

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A chamber or a cottage.
    • Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle,
    In which she eet ful many a sclendre meel.
    (Webster 1913) ----