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Definition of 'pur'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(low murmuring sound as of a cat)
* 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
- The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.
Verb
* John G. C. Brainard
- And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
* 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
- It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur .
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Similar to 'pur'peer, pour, poor, pear, pair, puer, per, purr, par, parr, pier, pwr, phr
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