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单词 churr
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churrn.

Etymology: < churr v.
1. A deep or low trilled or whirring sound made by some birds, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /tʃəː/, U.S. /tʃər/
Etymology: Echoic: compare chirr v.
a. intransitive. To make the sound described under chirr v.Expressive of a somewhat deeper and hoarser sound than chirr.
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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.
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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.
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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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