BLORENOUN
1. stormy breath; noisy bluster; loud talking; bragging talk ...c1440 arch. 2. a violent blowing; a blast of wind; a gust or gale ...1559 arch. 3. the air ...c1614 arch. VERB 1. to cry; to cry out loudly; to weep ...c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 2. of animals: to bleat, to bray, to bellow ...1865 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY n. from E-NED: apparently related to blow, blast; but the form does not seem capable of etymological explanation; perhaps it is partly onomatopoeic vb. a variant or parallel of blare FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1440 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...Byde me here bewchere Or more blore be blowen." From: York Mysteries (York Plays. The plays performed by the crafts or mysteries of York on the day of Corpus Christi), c1440 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 • A Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Illusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc....., Robert Nares, 1888 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908 • Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955 • Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895 • Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright, 1880, 1886
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