Oorie vs Norie - What's the difference?
oorie | norie |
The pearl oyster.
As nouns the difference between oorie and norie
is that oorie is the pearl oyster while norie is the cormorant.As an adjective oorie
is ourie.oorie
English
Noun
(en noun)- 1861 , Sir J. Emerson Tennent, "Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon with Narratives and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Habits and Instincts of the Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &C. including A Monograph of the Elephant and A Description of the Modes of Capturing and Training It with Engravings From Original Drawings", K.C.S. Ll.D. &C., They believed them to proceed not from a fish, but from a shell, which is known by the Tamil name of oorie cooleeroo cradoo, or the "crying shell," a name in which the sound seems to have been adopted as an echo to the sense.