单词 | churr |
释义 | churrn. 1. A deep or low trilled or whirring sound made by some birds, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > buzz or trilled sound chirrc1600 buzz1645 churr1837 chizz1884 the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp chattera1250 twit1602 twitter1709 twit1769 chirrup1830 churr1837 tweet1837 chipper1844 chirp1850 chitter1869 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by sound > particular sound > churr churr1837 1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 404 A few mellow notes..intermixed at times with a sort of stifled scream or churr. 1856 S. T. Dobell Eng. in Time of War 27 Churr, churr! goes the cockchafer. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 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. ΚΠ 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iv. iii. 83 May-Chit, Spawe, Churre, Peeper, Grindle. 1667 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (1684) i. 6 It wants not..Curlew, Bayning, Dotterel, Roe, Chur. 1864 J. C. Atkinson List Provinc. Names Birds Compounds churr owl n. the Goat-sucker; cf. churn-owl n. ΚΠ 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 97 Churr Owl (Aberdeen). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2019). churrv. a. intransitive. To make the sound described under chirr v.Expressive of a somewhat deeper and hoarser sound than chirr. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > buzz hurr1398 buzz1495 churr1555 huzz1555 chirr1840 bombinate1880 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. vi. 93 The Troglodites..sieme rather to busse or churre betwene the tieth, then to speake. 1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 139 The Partridge calls its Mate, and churrs. 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 28 So have I heard..A Hedge-bird churring sit hard by. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. 69 The night-hawk churred softly round their path. b. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (transitive)] > make miscellaneous types of sound shritcha1535 outroara1616 growl1783 churr1834 becroak1861 1834 R. Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) I. 89 They may be..heard churring an end of their exhilarating stave. Derivatives churring n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [adjective] > that buzzes churring1599 chirring1648 bombylious1713 the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > buzz or trilled sound > action of making churring1599 bombilation1646 chirring1648 bombination1816 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 73 Heare eke their hurring and their churring song. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cabab.., the chucking, churring, or iouking, of a Partridge. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xi. 93 The churring of a pair of nightjars around an oak. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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