curr

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English

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verb

To coo like an owl.

Archaic; Intransitive verb

verb

To purr like a cat.

Archaic; Intransitive verb

name

"1798, William Wordsworth, The Idiot Boy, first published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, republished in 1827, The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, 1872, page 53, The owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,"

Imitative.

currs (present, singular) curring (participle, present) curred (participle, past) curred (past)

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