Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rumor; spread by report.
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Examples
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Tell him to please 'norate' it in the settlement about, and ax the women and children to come.
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And I'd go furder, yit, to-day, to hear old Jap norate
Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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Went down at night with Fremonce to hear him "norate."
Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864, 1864
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I got up in the morning, and as I was drawing on my left boot, muttered as if to myself, "but whither he kin norate it from the stump - that's the question."
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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I'll tell you jest what I told him, Blass, says I old Blass, when it comes to hard law, Nash, knows about all the law they is - but whether he kin norate it from the stump or not, that's the question.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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I told him "I thought I should have to norate it a little."
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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Feller-Citizens, -- I've bin honored with a invite to norate before you to-day; and when I say that I scarcely feel ekal to the task, I'm sure you will believe me.
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"It's plum amazin 'ter heer ye norate thet ye've done been tradin' and hagglin 'with old man McGivins long enough ter buy his logs offen him and yit ye hain't never met up with Alexander.
A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904
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& paid & thereof & of every Part & P'cell thereof doe Exon - norate acquitt & and discharge the Said William Hersey his Suffolk Deeds, Lib.
Suffolk deeds 1653
mollusque commented on the word norate
People've been norating about you, sure!" said Troy, watching her speed. "Well, you're just in time."
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010