yure

English

Etymology 1

Determiner

yure

Eye dialect spelling of your.
- 1891, Kate Sanborn, Adopting An Abandoned Farm‎:
  I've heard of yure old lot.
- 1919, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Joy in the Morning‎:
  But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA."

Etymology 2

Noun

yure (uncountable)

(Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
- 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine‎:
  Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.
- 1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics‎:
  Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.

Etymology 3

From Middle English ȝowre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudarą, *ūdarą. More at udder.

Alternative forms

ewer, ure

Noun

yure (plural yures)

(Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder

Anagrams

Eury, Urey, eury-

Middle English

Determiner

yure

Alternative form of youre

References

“your (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

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