# stoor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stɔː/, /stʊə/
* (General American) IPA: /stɔɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.

#### Alternative forms

* stour

#### Verb

stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
* (transitive, UK dialectal) To stir up, as liquor.
* (transitive, UK dialectal) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
* (transitive, UK dialectal) To sprinkle.

#### Noun

stoor (plural stoors)
* (UK dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
* (UK dialectal) A gush of water.
* (UK dialectal) Spray.
* (UK dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.

##### Derived terms

* stoorey
* stoory

### Etymology 2

See stour.

#### Adjective

stoor (comparative stoorer or more stoor, superlative stoorest or most stoor)
* Alternative form of stour
** 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 2, page 148:A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.

##### Derived terms

* stoorness

### See also

* stoor worm

### Anagrams

* Toors, torso, rotos, ostro, toros, Oorts, roost, Sorto, roots

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)
* (transitive) to store, to storage
* (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)

### Noun

stoor (plural [please provide])
* shop, store
* storage, saving

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stoːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːr

### Verb

stoor
* inflection of storen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* soort

## Middle English
### Adjective

stoor
* Alternative spelling of stour (large)
** 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?(please add an English translation of this quotation)