Crossword-Solution: DOUR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dour | a. | Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DOUR | anagram | DURO, ORDU, ROUD, RUDO, URDO |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DOUR (5)
They've words for every one but me -- shake hands wi' half the crew, Except the dour Scots engineer, the man they never knew.
There was nae noise to be heard, but just the sough of the swalled burns, and Hob, the dour yin, risping his teeth as he gaed.” With the first glint of the morning they saw they were on the drove road, and at that the four stopped and had a dram to their breakfasts, for they knew that Dand must have guided them right, and the rogues could be but little ahead, hot foot for Edinburgh by the way of the Pentland Hills.
But if I did so, and came presently to _doun_, which is the classical Scots spelling of the English _down_, I should begin to feel uneasy; and if I went on a little farther, and came to a classical Scots word, like _stour_ or _dour_ or _clour_, I should know precisely where I was—that is to say, that I was out of sight of land on those high seas of spelling reform in which so many strong swimmers have toiled vainly.
Not places to shrink back from--oh no! no! One could be sure, then--SURE! Feargus had lifted his bonnet with that extraordinary triumph in his look--even Feargus, who had been rather dour.
Terutak’, long, dour Scots fisherman as he was, expressed his satisfaction within bounds; but the wife beamed; and there was an old gentleman present—her father, I suppose—who seemed nigh translated.
Quotes with DOUR (3)
Da. This is going very well already." Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?" Mouse sneezed." Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine.""It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas.""Are you kidding?" Thomas said. "I'm obviously Legolas. You're . . ." He squinted thoughtfully at Sanya and then at Martin. "Wel…
We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected
Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 279 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).