glaur

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UK/ɡlaʊə/US/ɡlaʊɚ/

noun

Mud, slime, mire.

OriginScots glaur ← Middle Scots glar →
Scrabble 6
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Meanings

noun
  1. Mud, slime, mire.

    ’twas all there in the Stars, the whole miserable story, but did I pay attention? Nooaahh...I was regretting the Sixpence, a fool with his eyes in the glaur.

    1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229

Origin

  1. Middle Scotsglar
  2. Scotsglaur
  3. Englishglaur

From Scots glaur, from Middle Scots glar, of unknown origin.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

LugargularGraulrugalgural
Cite this entry
APA

glaur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glaur

MLA

“glaur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glaur. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glaur,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glaur.

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