Smoor vs Spoor - What's the difference?
smoor | spoor |
(transitive, obsolete, dialect, UK, Scotland) To suffocate or smother.
The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
*:Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.
As verbs the difference between smoor and spoor
is that smoor is (transitive|obsolete|dialect|uk|scotland) to suffocate or smother while spoor is to track an animal by following its spoor.As a noun spoor is
the track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal.smoor
English
Alternative forms
* smoreVerb
(en verb)- (Robert Burns)
spoor
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.