See curr on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Imitative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "currs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "curring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "curred",
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"past"
]
},
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{
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},
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},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
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"name": "Animal sounds",
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"Sounds",
"Vocalizations",
"Sound",
"Communication",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Nature",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"text": "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,\nThe owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To coo like an owl."
],
"id": "en-curr-en-verb-w9YwVDe4",
"links": [
[
"coo",
"coo"
],
[
"owl",
"owl"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
{
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"parents": [],
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},
{
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"Sound",
"Communication",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Nature",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To purr like a cat."
],
"id": "en-curr-en-verb-bKNodp8j",
"links": [
[
"purr",
"purr"
],
[
"cat",
"cat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"word": "curr"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "A phonetic and semantic variant of thurr.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "curra",
"tags": [
"aorist"
]
},
{
"form": "currur",
"tags": [
"participle"
]
}
],
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},
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"name": "head"
},
{
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},
"expansion": "curr (aorist curra, participle currur)",
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}
],
"lang": "Albanian",
"lang_code": "sq",
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{
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{
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}
],
"glosses": [
"to prick up (ears)"
],
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[
"prick",
"prick"
],
[
"up",
"up"
]
]
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "thurr"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Vladimir Orel"
],
"word": "curr"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
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"1": "hy",
"2": "սուր",
"3": "",
"4": "sword"
},
"expansion": "Armenian սուր (sur, “sword”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 (hairus)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Either a nominal derivative of curr (“to prick up”), or from the same root of Armenian սուր (sur, “sword”) and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 (hairus).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "curra",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "curri",
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"definite"
]
},
{
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},
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},
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}
],
"lang": "Albanian",
"lang_code": "sq",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"high rock"
],
"id": "en-curr-sq-noun-H1MY1NZa",
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[
"high",
"high"
],
[
"rock",
"rock"
]
],
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"masculine"
]
}
],
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}
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],
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}
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"Albanian nouns",
"Albanian verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"etymology_text": "A phonetic and semantic variant of thurr.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "curra",
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"aorist"
]
},
{
"form": "currur",
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"participle"
]
}
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},
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},
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"lang_code": "sq",
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{
"glosses": [
"to prick up (ears)"
],
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"prick",
"prick"
],
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"up",
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]
]
}
],
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{
"word": "thurr"
}
],
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],
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}
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 (hairus)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "curra",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "curri",
"tags": [
"definite"
]
},
{
"form": "currat",
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"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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"high rock"
],
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"high",
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],
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"rock",
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]
],
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]
}
],
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{
"word": "thurr"
}
],
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}
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"English lemmas",
"English verbs",
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],
"etymology_text": "Imitative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "currs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "curring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "curred",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "curred",
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"past"
]
}
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],
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{
"text": "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,\nThe owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To coo like an owl."
],
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[
"coo",
"coo"
],
[
"owl",
"owl"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To purr like a cat."
],
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[
"purr",
"purr"
],
[
"cat",
"cat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"word": "curr"
}
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