Definition/Meaning of ire

• English - Noun: ire (uncountable) (obsolete, uncountable) Iron . 1806, Richard Polwhele, The Language, Literature, and Literary Characters of Cornwall: with Illustrations from Devonshire, page 25: […] 'Tell I'm rud as the smith makes the pieces of ire ; […] 1842, George Philip Rigney Pulman, Rustic Sketches; being poems on angling ... in the dialect of East Devon, page 55: A ire thing, moore smart by haff, /…
• English - Verb: ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired) (rare, transitive) To anger , to irritate . 1880, Gleason's Monthly Companion, page 287: It doesn't tire a man to put down a carpet so much as it ires him. 2020, Sarah Hawkswood, River of Sins, Allison and Busby: ‘And do not leave Furnaux in a pool of blood, however much he ires you.…
• English - Anagrams: EIR
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English ire , yre , from Old English īre , ȳre , īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“ iron ”). More at iron. Etymology 2. From Middle English ire , from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to fall upon, act sharply”) (compare Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), Ancient Greek ἱερός…
• English - Pronunciation: (US) IPA: /aɪ.ɚ/ (UK) IPA: /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)