Blore

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. Dialect verb meaning to roar, bellow or make a loud, booming noise
2. Used in some regional English for making a loud, resonant roaring or blaring sound
3. An old northern word describing the act of producing a deep, loud roar or blast

Etymology: "Blore" is an English dialect word meaning to roar very loudly, and its history runs back to the Old English verb for blaring or bellowing. Middle English had "bloren," a variant of "bleren" and "blaren," which traced back to reconstructed Old English forms "blǣran" and "blārian," meaning to blare, bellow, or cry out. In other words, "blore" is essentially an older, rougher cousin of "blare," preserving a sound-shape that the standard language later smoothed away. The word's exact ancestry is less settled. One suggestion is that it derives from a variant of "blare" that was altered under the influence of "blow," the verb for a loud wind or horn-blast. Irish and Scottish Gaelic offer a further comparison in "blor," meaning a loud noise, though the two words may simply share a sound-symbolic root rather than a direct line of descent.