adjective
- Causing a feeling of fear or dread; eerie or uncanny.
- Cold, chilly, or bleak in appearance or feeling.
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect; Also spelled 'oorie' or 'ourie'
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect
Examples
- The old abandoned house had an ourie atmosphere on that dark night.
- She felt an ourie sensation walking through the graveyard alone.
- The ourie wind howled through the empty streets.
- There was something ourie about the stranger's appearance.
- The ourie weather kept everyone indoors.
- He described the haunted castle as ourie and forbidding.