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Ourie vs Lourie - What's the difference?

ourie | lourie |

As an adjective ourie

is chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.

As a noun lourie is

any of several species of the family musophagidae.

ourie

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
  • Bleak; melancholy.
    • Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary", Familiar with all the seasons he represents the phases of a northern winter with a frequency characteristic of his clime and of his fortunes; her tempests became anthems in his verse, and the sounding woods "raise his thoughts to Him that walketh on the wings of the wind"; full of pity for the shelterless poor, the "ourie cattle," the "silly sheep," and the "helpless birds," he yet reflects that the bitter blast is not "so unkind as man's ingratitude."

    lourie

    English

    (wikipedia lourie) (Musophagidae) (Musophagidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several species of the family Musophagidae.

    • Synonyms

    * turaco