English
Determiner
yure
- Eye dialect spelling of your.
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1891, Kate Sanborn, Adopting An Abandoned Farm:- I've heard of yure old lot.
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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
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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.
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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
Noun
yure (plural yures)
- (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder