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See also: Corrie
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Highland Scottish Gaelic, perhaps from Celtic cor ("a corner").
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒɹi/
- Rhymes: -ɒɹi
Noun
[edit]corrie (plural corries)
- (Scotland) A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation.
- 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XVI:
- Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!
- 1972, Mountain (issues 20-24, page 22)
- We spanned the dogs high up a corrie to the south of the ridge […]
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]geographical feature of glaciation
Anagrams
[edit]Scots
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Scottish Gaelic coire (“caldron”); compare Irish coire.[1]
Noun
[edit]corrie (plural corries)
Etymology 2
[edit]See coorie.
Verb
[edit]corrie (third-person singular simple present corries, present participle corriein, simple past corriet, past participle corriet)
References
[edit]- ^ “corrie”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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