A Scots and Northern English word for a moor — an area of open, uncultivated upland with peaty or boggy soil, heather, and rough grass.
"A group of senior pupils at Plockton High School have launched a new social enterprise ['Muir'] aimed at promoting Gaelic language and culture through locally-designed merchandise." www.whfp.com/2026/04/09/3...
To this day grateful yet astounded that Tamsyn Muir is getting away with this
A Scots and Northern English word for a moor — an area of open, uncultivated upland with peaty or boggy soil, heather, and rough grass. It appears frequently in Scottish place names (e.g., Muirhead, Muirkirk) and in Scottish literature. The word has a bleak, windswept resonance deeply embedded in the Scottish landscape imagination.
They walked across the muir for an hour before the farmhouse came into view.
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(UK, regional) heathland for grazing animals.
(Scotland) Bleak; melancholy.
A Scottish term for a treacherous pit, hollow, or waterlogged slough in a peat bog — the kind of soft, sucking ground that can swallow a boot whole and has claimed the unwary for centuries. Moss-hags are features of the Scottish uplands and the accounts of travellers, soldiers, and farmers who learned to read the ground carefully to avoid them. The term appears in Scottish literature and landscape writing as shorthand for wild, dangerous, uncultivated terrain.
(British) Any Scottish mountain having a height of more than 3,000 feet; named after Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, Scottish mountaineer.
For this, we pray. And possibly make sacrifices to the Muir. If we knew what their favourite sacrifice was. Which we don’t. It’s very sad.
(especially, Scotland, Northern England) A moor.
“"A group of senior pupils at Plockton High School have launched a new social enterprise ['Muir'] aimed at promoting Gaelic language and culture through locally-designed merchandise." www.whfp.com/2026/04/09/3...”
“To this day grateful yet astounded that Tamsyn Muir is getting away with this”
“For this, we pray. And possibly make sacrifices to the Muir. If we knew what their favourite sacrifice was. Which we don’t. It’s very sad.”
“If you thought the John Muir Trail was the ultimate Sierra Nevada challenge, National Geographic just raised the bar. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/this-sierra-route-was-just-named-one-of-national-geographics-top-100-hikes-of-a-lifetime/”
“It absolutely is! I wonder if Tamsyn Muir has charts of who fucked who in these books. I suspect they would be... complex.”