Etymology

scoury

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Today it means: Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind. Full definition →

Old Norse skúr
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scoury · adjective1

  1. Old Norse · derived fromskúr“shower”
  2. English todayscoury

From a dialectal sense of scour, "rain shower", from Old Norse skúr (“shower”), + -y.

scoury · adjective2

From scour (“suffer diarrhea”) + -y.

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