curr

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verb

To coo like an owl.

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

curr1

verbcurr (third-person singular simple present currs, present participle curring, simple past and past participle curred)

present singular third person currs · participle present curring · participle past curred · past curred

  1. archaicintransitiveTo coo like an owl.

    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,

  2. archaicintransitiveTo purr like a cat.

Curr2

proper noun

Origin

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Chicago

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