1. Causing a feeling of fear or dread; eerie or uncanny.
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect; Also spelled 'oorie' or 'ourie'
2. Cold, chilly, or bleak in appearance or feeling.
Usage: Scottish and Northern English dialect

Examples

• The old abandoned house had an ourie atmosphere on that dark night.
• She felt an ourie sensation walking through the graveyard alone.
• The ourie wind howled through the empty streets.
• There was something ourie about the stranger's appearance.
• The ourie weather kept everyone indoors.
• He described the haunted castle as ourie and forbidding.