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Smoor vs Spoor - What's the difference?

smoor | spoor |

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

* smore

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, dialect, UK, Scotland) To suffocate or smother.
  • (Robert Burns)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    spoor

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal
  • * 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
  • Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.
  • *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.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To track an animal by following its spoor
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