SAURR

SAURR
m.
1) mud (at engi s. støkkvi af hestum yðrum ok á konunginn);
2) dirt, excrements; ausast sauri á, to throw dirt at one another.
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m., dat. sauri and saur; [remains with an inserted spurious k in Swed. skör-agtig = lewd, skör-lefnad = lewdness; cp. the derived words seyra and súrr]:—mud; var á róta mikil svá at ekki stökk saurr af jörðu, Bs. i. 334; jarðar-s., loam, Barl. 112; hlaupa í saur, to dabble in mud, Fs. 68; hann kvaðsk eigi vilja reiða eptir sér saur. 51; at engi saurr stökkvi af hestum yðrum ok; á konunginn, Sks. 365.
2. dirt, excrements; eða hrindr maðr honum í vatn eðr í hland eðr í mat, eðr í saur, ok varðar þat allt skóggang, Grág. ii. 132; í sauri, 328; sem hann hefði í saurnum laugask, Fas. ii. 332; ausask sauri á, to throw dirt at one another, Bjarn. 33; fugla s., Stj. 620; saur ok fúlindi, Mar., Stj. 383, 642, Karl. 320; s. í kviði manns, Hom. (St.):—metaph., synda s., Hom. 45; s. illra verka, Greg. 18:—as a nickname, Landn.
II. in local names, Saurar, Saur-bær, esp. the latter is freq. in Icel. of sour soil, swampy tracts, Landn.; hence prob. also Sorö (mid. Lat. Sora) in Denmark; these local names shew the oldest sense ot the word, cp. seyra.

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