murr

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/mɜːɹ/
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/mɜːɹ/ · [mɜː] · [mɝ] (US) · [mʌr] · [møː] · [meː] · [mɛː] · [mɜː(ɹ)]

Definition of murr

5 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A catarrh.
    “The woodhacke, that syngeth ‘chur’, Horsly, as he had the mur; […]”
    “[...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre.”
    “With them a Phthysique or consumption of the lungs is but an ordinary cough: A dysentery or bloody flux but a distemper of the stomacke; A pleurisie but a cold or murre; and as they gently name them so they easily endure them.”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)A catarrh.
    “The woodhacke, that syngeth ‘chur’, Horsly, as he had the mur; […]”
    “[...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre.”
    “With them a Phthysique or consumption of the lungs is but an ordinary cough: A dysentery or bloody flux but a distemper of the stomacke; A pleurisie but a cold or murre; and as they gently name them so they easily endure them.”
  2. (colloquial, onomatopoeic, slang)A purr (produced by any animal).
    “Raion let out a contented murr, […]”
    “Cathy rroww'ed like a cat in heat as her tom mated her, her breasts pressed deeply into the mattress, orgasming with a contented murr as the tom fertilized her […]”
    “The hyena let out a soft murr as the fox's paw gently rubbing in small circles across his forehead and down his neck. The gentle scratching felt good, so the hyena leaned into the paw.”

verb

  1. (colloquial, especially, onomatopoeic, slang)To purr.
    “The cat murred and purred and tried to lick his face and David was filled with such happiness. All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.”
    “She murred in satisfaction.”

adj

  1. (slang)Having sexual appeal, sexy.
    “Nice picture. I love the details on everything, and the shading is wonderful. He's very murr.”
    “Yew rox0rs....p.b. and Jay are murr. DO P.B.! Lukos "Darkan" […] wrote in message […] > A little fanart of Jay from Daria McGrain's 'Genus Male' comic. I like P.B. > better tho, and will draw him soon.”
    “Great pics, very murr :)”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps imitative.

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