blurn.

Brit.

/bləː/, U.S.

/blər/

Forms: 1500s–1600s blurre, 1600s– blurr, blur.

Etymology: Blur noun and verb appear about the middle of the 16th cent.: their mutual relation is doubtful, and the origin of both unknown: they have been conjecturally viewed as a variant of blear n., and may perhaps be onomatopoeic, combining the effect of blear and blot. The modern Scots is blore.

1. A smear which partially obscures, made with ink or other colouring matter, or by brushing the surface of writing while still wet.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition > smear

blur1601

smear1611

daub1731

smudgea1774

clart1808

slake1818

smooch1825

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 306 With it a man may wash away any blots or blurs of ink.

1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iii. xiii He that clenses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blurre.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 29 Apr. (1972) VI. 92 I minded it so little as to sleep in the middle of my letter to him, and committed forty blotts and blurrs.

1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 178 The Blots, Blurs, and Defacements of many of the Pages.

1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 28 Why keep each fool's bequeathment, scratch and blurr Which overscrawl and underscore the piece?

2. figurative. A stain which bedims moral or ideal purity, a blemish; an aspersion on character.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur

spota1225

umberc1380

blotc1386

maculate1490

touch1508

blemish1526

blur1548

attaint1592

stain1594

attainder1597

tachec1610

sullya1616

tainta1616

smutch1648

slur1662

woad1663

a blot on an escutcheon1697

blotch1860

smear1943

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xviii. f. 144 Sette a great blurre on myne honestie.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C2 This blur to youth.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 26 These blurs are too apparent in his Life.

1866 Cornhill Mag. May 557 The place from a distance, compared with the surrounding country, was a blur and a blemish as it were.

1883 Contemp. Rev. June 784 Many a blur of human error.

3. An effect like that of blurred writing or painting; an indistinct blurred appearance; indistinctness, confused dimness.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness

undistinction1647

shadowinessa1672

indistinctness1704

obscure1787

muzz1843

fogginess1853

blur1860

blurredness1864

veiling1864

fuzziness1866

blear1868

nebulousness1878

incertitude1883

velation1922

blurriness1937

1860 R. W. Emerson Illusions in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 281 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 39 The vast blur of a north-northeast snow-storm.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 58 The face, to me One blurr of blank.

Draft additions March 2016

Singapore English. Slow in understanding; unaware, ignorant, confused. Sometimes reduplicated for emphasis.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

sloweOE

stuntc960

dullOE

hardOE

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sotc1050

dillc1175

dulta1225

simplea1325

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astonedc1374

sheepishc1380

dull-witteda1387

lourd1390

steerishc1411

ass-likea1425

brainless?a1439

deafc1440

sluggishc1450

short-witted1477

obtuse1509

peakish1519

wearish1519

deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520

doileda1522

gross1526

headlessa1530

stulty1532

ass-headed1533

pot-headed1533

stupid?1541

sheep's head1542

doltish1543

dumpish1545

assish1548

blockish1548

slow-witted1548

blockheaded1549

surd1551

dull-headed1552

hammer-headed1552

skit-brained?1553

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assy1566

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Bœotian1598

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flata1616

logger-headeda1616

puppy-headeda1616

shallow-patedc1616

thick-brained1619

half-headed1621

buzzard-blinda1625

beef-brained1628

toom-headed1629

thick-witted1634

woollen-witted1635

squirrel-headed1637

clod-pated1639

lean-souled1639

muddy-headed1642

leaden-witteda1645

as sad as any mallet1645

under-headed1646

fat-headed1647

half-witted1647

insipid1651

insulsate1652

soft-headed1653

thick-skulleda1657

muddish1658

non-intelligent1659

whey-brained1660

sap-headed1665

timber-headed1666

leather-headeda1668

out of (one's) tree1669

boobily1673

thoughtless1673

lourdly1674

logger1675

unintelligenta1676

Bœotic1678

chicken-brained1678

under-witted1683

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dunderheaded1692

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crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

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doddy-polled1708

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like a bump on a log1842

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off his chump1864

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bonehead1903

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peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

1977 Straits Times (Singapore) 19 Aug. 9/3 He is blur-blur.

1978 Leong Choon Cheong Youth in Army 165 Being ‘blur’, he did not know exactly what he was puffing but was told it was just ordinary tobacco.

1995 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 22 Nov. Ah Fatt, why you blur like sotong [i.e. squid]?

2005 Edge (Singapore) (Nexis) 27 June If you're interested in buildings but are blur about them, enhance your knowledge and appreciation by picking up some of the tomes featured here.

2009 J. Ng Dim Sum for Family 278 The aggrieved party pretends not to know. We call this ‘acting blur’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blurv.

Brit.

/bləː/, U.S.

/blər/

Etymology: See blur n.

a. transitive. To obscure or sully (what has been fair) by smearing with ink or other colouring liquid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > smear

smear971

besmearc1050

slobber1529

slubber1530

smore1530

to-ray1562

slubbera1586

blur1592

beblur1598

beslubber1598

besmother1598

besmouche1600

slur1602

illine1615

slerga1758

slaister1773

gaum?1825

smarm1847

slob1851

maum1888

1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. ii To blurre his diademe with blood.

1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 54 His..black booke, blurde and blotted with the register of sin.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 20 A full paper blurred over with falshoods.

1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 117 Blacks blur thy white?

b. intransitive. To make blurs in writing.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > blur

blur1622

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 134 My pen did so blur, that I did despaire, to come off cleanly with it.

1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 314 I see how I have blurred: but tis not worth the writing fairer.

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xxxvii Over the neat crowquill calligraph His pen goes blotting, blurring.

2. figurative. To stain, sully, blot, or blemish the purity, beauty, or truth of (anything); to disfigure, befoul, defile, asperse.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)]

filea1325

foulc1330

tache1390

dark?c1400

distain1406

smita1413

blemish1414

black?c1425

defoul1470

maculate?a1475

macule1484

tan1530

staina1535

spota1542

smear1549

blot1566

besmear1579

defile1581

attaint1590

soila1596

slubber1599

tack1601

woad1603

besmirch1604

blur1604

to breathe upon ——1608

be-smut1610

clouda1616

sullya1616

taint1623

smutch1640

blackena1649

to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654

beslur1675

tarnish1695

blackwash1762

carbonify1792

smirch1820

tattoo1884

dirten1987

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 40 Such an act That blurres the grace and blush of modesty.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 40 Neuer yet did base dishonour blurre our name, But with our sword we wip'd away the blot.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 229 Sarcasmes may eclipse thine own, But cannot blur my lost renown.

1674 T. Flatman To Orinda 3 A weeping evening blurs a smiling day.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 28 Irish history, blurred..with extravagancy and fable.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. II. 237 The human face divine is blurred and transfigured by being made the impress of the mean and selfish.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 74 To blur a father's memory.

3. to blur out: to efface (writing, etc.) by blurring it. to blur over: to put out of sight, or obscure by a blur. Mostly figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)]

dilghec897

scrape1303

washc1380

fade1398

razea1425

out-razec1425

racec1450

enrasea1492

stramp1535

wipe1535

facec1540

cancel1559

outblot1573

to wash out1580

to blur out1581

obliterate1607

efface1611

dislimna1616

excerebrate1621

demark1655

rufflea1680

erase1695

scrub1828

overscore1834

elide1846

trash1859

to wipe (off) the slate1921

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > obscure

dark?c1400

darken1526

obscure1532

obnebulatec1540

to blur over1581

adumbrate1598

blind1652

mystify1827

darkle1893

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 13 If the lively authoritie of the holy scriptures have so utterly quasshed and blurred out this bald ceremonie.

1621 F. Quarles Hadassa (1638) 123 And from remembrance blurre his Generation.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 35 To blurre over, rather then to mention that publick triumph.

1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 51 Blur the names..out of the Books of Life.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 24 Concerning innate Principles, I desire these men to say, whether they can, or cannot..be blurr'd and blotted out.

1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 159 A constant tendency to blur out distinctions.

4. To make indistinct and dim, as writing is by being blurred. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > make indistinct

overcloudc1550

fog?1592

blura1616

soften1672

obumbilatea1711

slur1782

haze1801

veil1843

fuzz1907

defocus1955

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 105 Time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of Fauour Which then he wore.

1681 Humble Ess. Peace & Truth Church 2 The Blurring these Impressions.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 225 One low light..Blurr'd by the creeping mist.

1871 Rossetti Stream's Secr. viii Thine eddy's rippling race Would blur the perfect image of his face.

5. transferred.

a. To dim (the sight or other senses, the perception, or judgement), so that they no longer receive or form distinct impressions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions

stupefy?a1425

dullc1440

benumbc1485

slumber?1533

extinguish1540

extinct1542

numb1561

damp1570

hebetate1574

daunt1581

frostbite1593

hebete1597

blunt1600

unedgea1625

engross1626

astonish1635

consopite1647

bate1649

opiate1650

blura1653

hebescate1657

torpefy1808

dozena1810

dullify1838

hebetize1845

chloroform1849

narcotize1852

sodden1863

vastate1892

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)]

aggregea1382

obtunda1400

dull1552

to dull the edge of1605

blura1653

dullify1657

hebescate1657

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim

dima1300

blemish1440

troublea1500

misten1599

perstringe1603

blear1605

tara1612

disgregatea1631

purblind1644

obfuscate1656

blast1757

blur1791

bedim1811

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 112 Feare..blurres your senses.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xx. 392 With shadows dim he blurr'd the sight Of Peleus' son.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Staff & Scrip xxvii Our sense is blurr'd With all the chants gone by.

1878 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 264 Social equity in which charity is not allowed to blur judgment.

b. intransitive. To become blurred (to one's perceptions).

ΚΠ

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 290 But presently the winding Rhone Washed out the moonlight large along his banks,..shadow of town and castle blurred Upon the hurrying river.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. viii. 234 The calm, simple outlines of things are blurring before her eyes; the great placid deeps of the soul are breaking up.

1950 E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees iii. 15 They were on a straight stretch of road now and were making time so that one farm blended, almost blurred, into another farm and you could only see what was far ahead and moving towards you.

1964 J. Didion Run, River ix. 80 She watched the street lights blur through the blown branches.

1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. b25/3 Roles in the information world are blurring.

6. Cf. blare v. 2a, blore v.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grailler, to winde a Horne hollowly; to blurre a Trumpet.

Compounds

† blur-paper n. Obsolete a writer who merely blurs paper; a scribbler.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer

scribblera1556

paper-blurrera1586

by-writer1587

feather-driver1593

squitter-book1594

paper-stainer1596

blur-paper1603

spoil-paper1610

penster1611

inkhorn matea1616

squitter-wit1615

ink-dabbler1616

squitter-pulpa1640

quill-driver1700

scribble-scrabble1707

authorling1752

writerling1802

inkhorn varlet1820

toe-writer1845

pen-driver1854

anonymuncule1859

ink-jerker1865

pen-pusher1875

pseudonymuncle1875

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

blotter-

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxii. 413 Scriblers and blur-papers which now adayes stuffe Stationers shops.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blur
释义	blurn. Brit. /bləː/, U.S. /blər/ Forms: 1500s–1600s blurre, 1600s– blurr, blur. Etymology: Blur noun and verb appear about the middle of the 16th cent.: their mutual relation is doubtful, and the origin of both unknown: they have been conjecturally viewed as a variant of blear n., and may perhaps be onomatopoeic, combining the effect of blear and blot. The modern Scots is blore. 1. A smear which partially obscures, made with ink or other colouring matter, or by brushing the surface of writing while still wet. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition > smear blur1601 smear1611 daub1731 smudgea1774 clart1808 slake1818 smooch1825 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 306 With it a man may wash away any blots or blurs of ink. 1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iii. xiii He that clenses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blurre. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 29 Apr. (1972) VI. 92 I minded it so little as to sleep in the middle of my letter to him, and committed forty blotts and blurrs. 1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 178 The Blots, Blurs, and Defacements of many of the Pages. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 28 Why keep each fool's bequeathment, scratch and blurr Which overscrawl and underscore the piece? 2. figurative. A stain which bedims moral or ideal purity, a blemish; an aspersion on character. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur spota1225 umberc1380 blotc1386 maculate1490 touch1508 blemish1526 blur1548 attaint1592 stain1594 attainder1597 tachec1610 sullya1616 tainta1616 smutch1648 slur1662 woad1663 a blot on an escutcheon1697 blotch1860 smear1943 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xviii. f. 144 Sette a great blurre on myne honestie. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C2 This blur to youth. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 26 These blurs are too apparent in his Life. 1866 Cornhill Mag. May 557 The place from a distance, compared with the surrounding country, was a blur and a blemish as it were. 1883 Contemp. Rev. June 784 Many a blur of human error. 3. An effect like that of blurred writing or painting; an indistinct blurred appearance; indistinctness, confused dimness. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness undistinction1647 shadowinessa1672 indistinctness1704 obscure1787 muzz1843 fogginess1853 blur1860 blurredness1864 veiling1864 fuzziness1866 blear1868 nebulousness1878 incertitude1883 velation1922 blurriness1937 1860 R. W. Emerson Illusions in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 281 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 39 The vast blur of a north-northeast snow-storm. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 58 The face, to me One blurr of blank. Draft additions March 2016 Singapore English. Slow in understanding; unaware, ignorant, confused. Sometimes reduplicated for emphasis. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1977 Straits Times (Singapore) 19 Aug. 9/3 He is blur-blur. 1978 Leong Choon Cheong Youth in Army 165 Being ‘blur’, he did not know exactly what he was puffing but was told it was just ordinary tobacco. 1995 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 22 Nov. Ah Fatt, why you blur like sotong [i.e. squid]? 2005 Edge (Singapore) (Nexis) 27 June If you're interested in buildings but are blur about them, enhance your knowledge and appreciation by picking up some of the tomes featured here. 2009 J. Ng Dim Sum for Family 278 The aggrieved party pretends not to know. We call this ‘acting blur’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blurv. Brit. /bləː/, U.S. /blər/ Etymology: See blur n. 1. a. transitive. To obscure or sully (what has been fair) by smearing with ink or other colouring liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > smear smear971 besmearc1050 slobber1529 slubber1530 smore1530 to-ray1562 slubbera1586 blur1592 beblur1598 beslubber1598 besmother1598 besmouche1600 slur1602 illine1615 slerga1758 slaister1773 gaum?1825 smarm1847 slob1851 maum1888 1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. ii To blurre his diademe with blood. 1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 54 His..black booke, blurde and blotted with the register of sin. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 20 A full paper blurred over with falshoods. 1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 117 Blacks blur thy white? b. intransitive. To make blurs in writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > blur blur1622 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 134 My pen did so blur, that I did despaire, to come off cleanly with it. 1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 314 I see how I have blurred: but tis not worth the writing fairer. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xxxvii Over the neat crowquill calligraph His pen goes blotting, blurring. 2. figurative. To stain, sully, blot, or blemish the purity, beauty, or truth of (anything); to disfigure, befoul, defile, asperse. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)] filea1325 foulc1330 tache1390 dark?c1400 distain1406 smita1413 blemish1414 black?c1425 defoul1470 maculate?a1475 macule1484 tan1530 staina1535 spota1542 smear1549 blot1566 besmear1579 defile1581 attaint1590 soila1596 slubber1599 tack1601 woad1603 besmirch1604 blur1604 to breathe upon ——1608 be-smut1610 clouda1616 sullya1616 taint1623 smutch1640 blackena1649 to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654 beslur1675 tarnish1695 blackwash1762 carbonify1792 smirch1820 tattoo1884 dirten1987 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 40 Such an act That blurres the grace and blush of modesty. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 40 Neuer yet did base dishonour blurre our name, But with our sword we wip'd away the blot. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 229 Sarcasmes may eclipse thine own, But cannot blur my lost renown. 1674 T. Flatman To Orinda 3 A weeping evening blurs a smiling day. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 28 Irish history, blurred..with extravagancy and fable. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. II. 237 The human face divine is blurred and transfigured by being made the impress of the mean and selfish. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 74 To blur a father's memory. 3. to blur out: to efface (writing, etc.) by blurring it. to blur over: to put out of sight, or obscure by a blur. Mostly figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] dilghec897 scrape1303 washc1380 fade1398 razea1425 out-razec1425 racec1450 enrasea1492 stramp1535 wipe1535 facec1540 cancel1559 outblot1573 to wash out1580 to blur out1581 obliterate1607 efface1611 dislimna1616 excerebrate1621 demark1655 rufflea1680 erase1695 scrub1828 overscore1834 elide1846 trash1859 to wipe (off) the slate1921 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > obscure dark?c1400 darken1526 obscure1532 obnebulatec1540 to blur over1581 adumbrate1598 blind1652 mystify1827 darkle1893 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 13 If the lively authoritie of the holy scriptures have so utterly quasshed and blurred out this bald ceremonie. 1621 F. Quarles Hadassa (1638) 123 And from remembrance blurre his Generation. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 35 To blurre over, rather then to mention that publick triumph. 1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 51 Blur the names..out of the Books of Life. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 24 Concerning innate Principles, I desire these men to say, whether they can, or cannot..be blurr'd and blotted out. 1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 159 A constant tendency to blur out distinctions. 4. To make indistinct and dim, as writing is by being blurred. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > make indistinct overcloudc1550 fog?1592 blura1616 soften1672 obumbilatea1711 slur1782 haze1801 veil1843 fuzz1907 defocus1955 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 105 Time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of Fauour Which then he wore. View more context for this quotation 1681 Humble Ess. Peace & Truth Church 2 The Blurring these Impressions. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 225 One low light..Blurr'd by the creeping mist. 1871 Rossetti Stream's Secr. viii Thine eddy's rippling race Would blur the perfect image of his face. 5. transferred. a. To dim (the sight or other senses, the perception, or judgement), so that they no longer receive or form distinct impressions. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions stupefy?a1425 dullc1440 benumbc1485 slumber?1533 extinguish1540 extinct1542 numb1561 damp1570 hebetate1574 daunt1581 frostbite1593 hebete1597 blunt1600 unedgea1625 engross1626 astonish1635 consopite1647 bate1649 opiate1650 blura1653 hebescate1657 torpefy1808 dozena1810 dullify1838 hebetize1845 chloroform1849 narcotize1852 sodden1863 vastate1892 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] aggregea1382 obtunda1400 dull1552 to dull the edge of1605 blura1653 dullify1657 hebescate1657 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim dima1300 blemish1440 troublea1500 misten1599 perstringe1603 blear1605 tara1612 disgregatea1631 purblind1644 obfuscate1656 blast1757 blur1791 bedim1811 a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 112 Feare..blurres your senses. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xx. 392 With shadows dim he blurr'd the sight Of Peleus' son. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Staff & Scrip xxvii Our sense is blurr'd With all the chants gone by. 1878 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 264 Social equity in which charity is not allowed to blur judgment. b. intransitive. To become blurred (to one's perceptions). ΚΠ 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 290 But presently the winding Rhone Washed out the moonlight large along his banks,..shadow of town and castle blurred Upon the hurrying river. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. viii. 234 The calm, simple outlines of things are blurring before her eyes; the great placid deeps of the soul are breaking up. 1950 E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees iii. 15 They were on a straight stretch of road now and were making time so that one farm blended, almost blurred, into another farm and you could only see what was far ahead and moving towards you. 1964 J. Didion Run, River ix. 80 She watched the street lights blur through the blown branches. 1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. b25/3 Roles in the information world are blurring. 6. Cf. blare v. 2a, blore v. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grailler, to winde a Horne hollowly; to blurre a Trumpet. Compounds † blur-paper n. Obsolete a writer who merely blurs paper; a scribbler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxii. 413 Scriblers and blur-papers which now adayes stuffe Stationers shops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1548v.1581
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