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Ourie vs Oorie - What's the difference?

ourie | oorie |

As adjectives the difference between ourie and oorie

is that ourie is chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering while oorie is ourie.

As a noun oorie is

the pearl oyster.

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."

    oorie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pearl oyster.
    • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • ourie