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Wor

//wɔː// det, verb

Definitions

Determiner
  1. 1
    Our. Geordie

    "If ye gannin oot the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy."

Verb
  1. 1
    Was; were. East-Midlands, Northern-England, West-Country, dialectal

    "“I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Likely ultimately a borrowing into Northumbrian Old English from Old Norse várr (“our”) (from the same Proto-Germanic root *unseraz that produced Standard English our). Compare Scots wir.

Etymology 2

From an altered pronunciation of was.

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