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owre weel

adverbial phrasequality

fairly well, satisfactory but not great

fairly well; to a satisfactory but not exceptional degree

Example in use

He tauld me he's owre weel.

Pronunciation

Say it like this

/OOR-weel/

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Origin & context

scotscurrentneutral

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