Soarer vs Sorer - What's the difference?
soarer | sorer |
(sore)
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
* Tillotson
Dire; distressing.
(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(lb) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Sorely.
*1919 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs),
*:[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
* Sir Walter Scott
A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
A young buck in its fourth year.
mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
As a noun soarer
is one who soars.As an adjective sorer is
(sore).sorer
English
Adjective
(head)sore
English
(wikipedia sore)Adjective
(er)- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
- The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
- Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* sight for sore eyes * sorely * soreness * sore pointAdverb
(-)Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Noun
(en noun)- They put ointment and a bandage on the sore .
- I see plainly where his sore lies.