stoer
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- firm, robust, sturdy, butch
- tough, cool
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Etymology
Originally the same word as stuurs, of which it is an eastern dialectal variant. Cognate with German stur (itself from Low German). Not immediately cognate with English stour, Swedish stor, but possibly related.
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