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▪ I. slurring, vbl. n.1|ˈslɜːrɪŋ|
[f. as prec.]
The action of slur v.1 in various senses.
1661R. Burney Chas. II. Presented 32 A King most properly commands Free Subjects, without the violation of their priviledges, or slurring of the Leaves of Magna Charta. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 This is rather slurring than Doubling.., but when it is real Doubling, it happens generally on the whole Sheet. 1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Slurring, performing in a smooth gliding style. 1866G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 22 In Old-North English this slurring was still more prevalent. 1871Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 243 Slurrings-over and runnings-together of syllables.
▪ II. ˈslurring, vbl. n.2
[f. slur v.2]
The action of slur v.2 in various senses.
1668Head & Kirkman Eng. Rogue iv. xvi. 226 Slurring, is when you throw your Dice so smoothly on the Table that they turn not. 1673Head Cant. Acad. 17 Three parts of every nights dream is spent..in topping, slurring, palming. 1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 78 It could not stand on the table for the ship's tossing..; som securing themselves from slurring by setting their feete against the table.
attrib.1674Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 85 That is done by lying a fore-finger on the top indifferent hard, and giving a slurring jerk to the rest.
▪ III. ˈslurring, ppl. a.
[f. slur v.1]
1. Of utterance: Indistinct.
1848Keightley Notes to Horace Introd., Hence..their rapid slurring pronunciation, as is shown by the metre of their comic poets. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, ‘Yes’, said Headstone in a slurring way. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 903 My speech was slurring, my gait ataxic.
2. Careless, hurried.
1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. 279, I never allow myself to do things..in a slurring, slipshod way.
3. Slighting; depreciatory.
1892Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 227 This decidedly slurring description of the belle of Newport's last season makes the girl think every one despises her. |