ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Orra

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Orra is an adjective meaning (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.

Meaning

(now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.

More Meanings

  1. (now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable.

Example Sentences

But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subsecive, remnant, forraine, erraunt, dearthful, unchancy.

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