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Definition of 'sorr'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Irish|eye dialect) sir
  • * {{quote-book|year=1912|author=William Hope Hodgson|title=Carnacki, The Ghost Finder|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage="'I tell ye, sorr ,' he told him, ''tis of no use at all, thryin' ter reclaim ther castle. }}
  • * {{quote-book|year=1916|author=Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)|title=Action Front|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=No, sorr --yes, sorr," said Clancy hurriedly, and then more slowly, in neat adoption of the remarks he had just heard: "Leastways, sorr, I was just afther wondering if you had heard anything of this tale of a German Gineral lying out there on the ground beyanst." " }}
  • * {{quote-book|year=1888|author=William Henry Hurlbert|title=Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage="A foine day it is, sorr ," said our jarvey as we took our seats on the car. }}