orra

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Adjective

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
2. (now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. [from 16th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:

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

Anagrams

• Raro, roar

Etymology

orr (“nose”) +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈorːɒ]
• Hyphenation: or‧ra

Noun

orra

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of orr

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. Alternative form of orthu

Verb

orra

1. third-person singular present indicative of orrare
2. second-person singular imperative of orrare

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Mutation

Further reading

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)