orra

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orra

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Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

adjective more orra · most orra

Scotland Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
Scotland Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]

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@misc{orra_2026,
  title = {orra},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/orra},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}