† hurrn.
Obsolete.
‘A thin flat piece of wood, tied to a string and whirled round in the air’ (Halliwell). Also called hurre-bone n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > [noun]
hurr1483
hurre-bone1483
rattle1519
rittle-rattle1567
clickets1611
bummer1821
bullroarer1848
thunderer1860
whizzer188.
tick-tack1884
whizzing-stick1890
whizzing-blade1905
1483 Cath. Angl. 192/2 An Hurre bone (A. A Hurre), giraculum.
1500 Ortus Vocabulorum 192/2 Giraculum, a chylde's whyrle, or a hurre.
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hurrv.
/həː//hʌrr/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To make or utter a dull sound of vibration or trilling; to buzz as an insect; to snarl as a dog; to pronounce a trilled r.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > snarl or growl
garre1382
hurr1398
roina1450
gnar1496
snar1530
whurl1530
snarl1590
gnarl1596
grumble1608
yarr1611
whirr1706
growl1719
yirra1796
gargle1861
grrra1963
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > buzz
hurr1398
buzz1495
churr1555
huzz1555
chirr1840
bombinate1880
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > buzz
hurr1398
hoss1530
breeze1688
zizz1883
zoom1886
zither1889
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > vibratory sound > [verb (intransitive)] > trill
hurr1398
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [verb (intransitive)] > trill
hurra1637
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. xii. (Tollem. MS.) By continuall flappynge of wynges he [the gnat] makeþ noyse in þe eyer, as þouȝe he hurred [L. quasi stridet].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 254/1 Hurron, or bombon as bees..(K. hurryn, or bumbyn as ben)..bombizo.
a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. iv, in Wks. (1640) III R Is the Dogs Letter, and hurreth in the sound.
1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie ii. 24 And, where no hope of gain is, huffe, and hur, And bark against the moon, as doth a cur.
1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Hurr, to snarl like a dog.
Derivatives
hurring n. and adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > vibratory sound > [noun] > whirr
whirring1581
hurring1582
whirr1677
burr1818
birr1837
whirra1929
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > vibratory sound > [adjective] > whirr
whirring?a1500
skirring1573
hurring1582
birring1787
burring1886
whirry1936
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 Thee skyes lowd rumbled with ringing thunderus hurring.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 73 Heare eke their hurring and their churring song.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxi. 412 A fagot flame with hurring sounds.
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