yure

yure

1. 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."

yure (uncountable)

1. (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.

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

• ewer, ure

yure (plural yures)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder

• Eury, Urey, eury-

yure

1. Alternative form of youre

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