# ourie

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
2. Bleak; melancholy.

## Etymology
From Old Norse úr (“precipitation”), from Proto-Germanic *ūrą, from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade form of *weh₁r- (“water”).
Equivalent to dialectal Swedish urrigt (“chill; having the sensation of cold; shivering”, literally “urr-ie”) – urrigt väder = “chill weather” – partly stemming from urr (“the feeling of shivering”), an onomatopoetic word akin to brr, but potentially also derived from ur (historical alternate spelling: urr).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ourie