orra

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adjective

Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.

RareFirst used 16th c.Scrabble 4
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Meanings

adjectiveorra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

comparative more orra · superlative most orra

  1. ScotlandSuperfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
  2. ScotlandOf people: idle, unemployed, disreputable.First known use 16th c.

    But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]

    1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16

Origin

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

orra. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orra

MLA

“orra.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orra. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “orra,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orra.

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