purrern.1
/ˈpəːrə/, U.S. /ˈpərər/ A person who or thing which purrs; a cat, esp. one which purrs. Frequently with modifying adjective.
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1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 326/1 Invisible to every living soul..except Cyprus, our cat, a perpetual purrer.
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 561 The feline purrer of the hearth.
1928 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Times 13 Mar. 7/3 Just watch the stag line congregate about the stupid one, the simperer, and the purrer, if she has blue eyes and golden curls and a shapely leg!
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 92/3 (advt.) Adopt handsome male cat: ‘Purry’ Japanese Harlequin,..short silky fur, great purrer, playful.
1998 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 27 Apr. 4 Certainly some cats are more enthusiastic purrers than others.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
purrern.2
/ˈpəːə/, U.S. /ˈpərər/ Chiefly English regional (Lancashire). Now rare.
A heavy clog; (also) a person who takes part in a ‘purring’ fight.
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1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 453/1 One smashed his os frontis with the nailed heel of a two-pound wooden clog, a Preston Purrer.
1872 Porcupine 14 4/2 Would it not be well if some organisation could be set on foot..to civilise the ‘Lancashire purrers’, even at the risk of slightly damaging their Protestanism?
1883 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/2 Before the ‘purrers’ reached Philadelphia their legs were swollen out of all proportion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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