Sorn vs Sorr - What's the difference?
sorn | sorr |
(dated) to impose upon another for food and lodging.
(Irish, eye dialect) sir
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=William Hope Hodgson, title=Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, chapter=, edition=
, passage="'I tell ye, sorr ,' he told him, ''tis of no use at all, thryin' ter reclaim ther castle. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), title=Action Front, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No, sorr --yes, sorr," said Clancy hurriedly, and then more slowly, in neat adoption of the remarks he had just heard: "Leastways, sorr, I was just afther wondering if you had heard anything of this tale of a German Gineral lying out there on the ground beyanst." " }}
* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=William Henry Hurlbert, title=Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888), chapter=, edition=
, passage="A foine day it is, sorr ," said our jarvey as we took our seats on the car. }}
As a verb sorn
is to impose upon another for food and lodging.As a noun sorr is
sir.sorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- The traveler sorned his less than willing hosts.
Anagrams
* ----sorr
English
Noun
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