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▪ I. churr, n.
[f. churr v.]
1. A deep or low trilled or whirring sound made by some birds, etc.
1837Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 404 A few mellow notes..intermixed at times with a sort of stifled scream or churr. 1856Dobell Lyrics in War Time, Milkm. Song, Churr, churr! goes the cockchafer. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 284 The Goat-sucker, or Nightjar,—Their cry..with the addition of the characteristic ‘chur-r-r, chur-r-r.’
2. Hence, the local name of several birds which make this sound esp. the Partridge; the White Throat (Sylvia cinerea); the Dunlin; and the Nightjar.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey iv. iii. 83 May-Chit, Spawe, Churre, Peeper, Grindle. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. (1684) 6 It wants not..Curlew, Bayning, Dotterel, Roe, Chur. 1864Atkinson Prov. Names Birds.
3. Comb. churr owl, the Goat-sucker; cf. churn-owl.
1885Swainson Brit. Birds 97 Churr Owl (Aberdeen).
▪ II. churr, v.|tʃɜː(r)|
[Echoic: cf. chirr.]
intr. To make the sound described under churr n.
(Expressive of a somewhat deeper and hoarser sound than chirr.)
1555Fardle Facions i. vi. 93 The Troglodites..sieme rather to busse or churre betwene the tieth, then to speake. 1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 139 The Partridge calls its Mate, and churrs. 1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) I. vi, So have I heard..A Hedge-bird churring sit hard by. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago III. 69 The night-hawk churred softly round their path.
b. trans.
1834R. Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) I. 89 They may be..heard churring an end of their exhilarating stave.
Hence churring vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 73 Heare eke their hurring and their churring song. 1611Cotgr., Cabab..The chucking, churring, or iouking, of a Partridge. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xi. 93 The churring of a pair of nightjars around an oak. |