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单词 skirr
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Definition of skirr in English:

skirr

verb skəːskər
rare
  • no object, with adverbial of direction Move rapidly, especially with a whirring sound.

    five dark birds rose skirring away
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only two days on the job, but 18-year-old Talia already knows the drill as her green mountain bike skirrs over potholes in turbid laneways.
    • His chuckle was as affable and reassuring as the skirr of a buzz-saw.
    • Whereupon, a spandrel skirrs, having put the ‘maze’ in paronomasia.
    Synonyms
    dash, dart, run, sprint, race, rush, hurry, hasten, hare, hurtle, bolt, shoot, charge, career, speed, fly, whizz, zoom

Origin

Mid 16th century: perhaps related to scour1 or scour2.

Rhymes

à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr
 
 

Definition of skirr in US English:

skirr

verbskər
rare
  • no object, with adverbial of direction Move rapidly, especially with a whirring sound.

    five dark birds rose skirring away
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His chuckle was as affable and reassuring as the skirr of a buzz-saw.
    • Only two days on the job, but 18-year-old Talia already knows the drill as her green mountain bike skirrs over potholes in turbid laneways.
    • Whereupon, a spandrel skirrs, having put the ‘maze’ in paronomasia.
    Synonyms
    dash, dart, run, sprint, race, rush, hurry, hasten, hare, hurtle, bolt, shoot, charge, career, speed, fly, whizz, zoom

Origin

Mid 16th century: perhaps related to scour or scour.

 
 
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