Pur
[pɜː] or ['pɜ]
Definition
(v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.
(v. t.) To signify or express by purring.
(n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.
Editor: Maureen
Definition
See Purr.
Edited by Diana
Examples
- Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl?potatoes and pur閑 de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I wanted to give you a delightful sap--pur--IZE! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And now, my child, prepare your lessons for repetition, while I put the peas to soak for the purée at dinner. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I should think none but disagreeable people do, said Celia, in her usual purring way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checker: Reginald