Definition of "orra"

orra

adjective
comparative more orra, superlative most orra
1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
2. (now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable.
  Quotations
  But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]
  1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16

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