burrnoun
uk/bɜːr/us/bɝː/burr noun (SOUND)
[ C usually singular ] a way of speaking English in which the "r" sound is more noticeable than usual:
He spoke in a soft West Country burr.
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- sotto voce
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
burr noun (SEED)
[ C ] also bur a very small, round seed container that sticks to clothes and to animals' fur because it is covered in little hooks
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- husk
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
- zest
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