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curr

curr verb: to coo like an owl.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl.
    • The owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,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
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat.

Proper noun capitalized: Curr

Curr

  1. A surname.

Forms of curr

third-person singular presentcurrs
present participlecurring
past participlecurred
pastcurred

Origin of curr

Imitative.

Questions about curr

What does curr mean?
Curr means to coo like an owl.
What part of speech is curr?
Curr can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of curr?
The past tense of curr is curred.

Words near curr in the dictionary

  1. Curnutts
  2. Curonian
  3. Curonians
  4. curple
  5. curples
  6. curr
  7. Curra Creek
  8. currabingo
  9. Currabubula
  10. currach
  11. currachs

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