Scotland · adjective and adverb
sair
Sore, painful, tender, severe, or badly.
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What sair means
Sair is a Scots form of sore. It can describe physical pain, emotional hurt, or the severity of an action.
How it is used
A person may have a sair head, feel sair after exercise, or miss someone sair.
- Part of speech
- adjective and adverb
- Pronunciation
- /seːr/ or /sɛr/
- Register
- Scots; common in traditional and regional speech.
- Variants
- No common variant listed
Examples
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My legs are sair after that climb.
My legs are sore after that climb.
He missed his family sair.
He missed his family deeply.
What to watch for
Sair can describe emotional as well as physical pain.
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