English

Adjective

shure

1. Eye dialect spelling of sure.
   • 1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete:

     "You see, sir, quite hand in glove with Dashing Jerry; met in the same inn last night--preconcerted, you may be quite shure."

   • 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873:

     "Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.

   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 8

     [<span title=""Niver mind, niver mind," continued the other, "but their influences may be operatin' upon ye;">…] it's shure as I'm tellin' ye, it's them that has the reference to the immejit surroundin's that has the most of power.

Anagrams

• erhus
• usher