currn.
A curring sound.
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1867 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 148 They'll send the stanes spinnin Wi a whirr and a curr till they sit round the tee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
currv.
/kəː//kʌrr/ To make a low murmuring sound, like the cooing of a dove or purring of a cat.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > purr
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1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) iii. 57 When you have so tamed them [Nightingales] that they begin to Cur and Sweet with chearfulness, and record softly to themselves.
1798 W. Wordsworth Idiot Boy in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 156 The owlets hoot, the owlets curr.
1844 G. Donald in D. Robertson Songs for Nursery 63/2 Cheetie! cheetie pussie..by fireside currin’, sang contented purrin’.
Derivatives
ˈcurring n. and adj.
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1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xiii. 107 The..curring of Pigeons..curkling of Quails.
1852 Thomas in Zoologist 10 3651 [The note of the fern-owl] resembled..the whirring, rapid rotation of a wheel..the sounds intermixed with curring and croaking notes.
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