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Sorr vs Dorr - What's the difference?

sorr | dorr |

As nouns the difference between sorr and dorr

is that sorr is (irish|eye dialect) sir while dorr is a dor, or dorbeetle.

sorr

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Irish, eye dialect) sir
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=William Hope Hodgson, title=Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , passage="A foine day it is, sorr ," said our jarvey as we took our seats on the car. }}

    dorr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dor, or dorbeetle.
  • (obsolete) A drone or idler; a lazy person.
  • (Webster 1913)