- damp, chilly and unpleasant, raw, bleak, depressing. Oorlich shoo’ers o’ drift an’ hail (William Alexander Johnny Gibb 1871).
If you are caught in oorlich weather, you might be a bit oorlich yourself, damp and miserable. There might even be just a hint of the supernatural in the word. So if you are hurrying home in an oorlich night – don’t look behind you!