shure

English

Adjective

shure

Eye dialect spelling of sure.
- 1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete‎:
  "You see, sir, quite hand in glove with Dashing Jerry; met in the same inn last night--preconcerted, you may be quite shure."
- 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873‎:
  "Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.
- 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter VIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
  […] it's shure as I'm tellin' ye, it's them that has the reference to the immejit surroundin's that has the most of power.

Anagrams

Huser, Rhues, Ruhes, Uhers, Usher, erhus, huers, usher

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