"squir" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /skwɜː(ɹ)/ Forms: squirs [present, singular, third-person], squirring [participle, present], squirred [participle, past], squirred [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-verb}} squir (third-person singular simple present squirs, present participle squirring, simple past and past participle squirred)
  1. (obsolete) To throw with a jerking motion; to skim. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: squirr
    Sense id: en-squir-en-verb-WXP9k-bb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirred",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1711 June 9 (Gregorian calendar), [Eustace Budgell], “TUESDAY, May 29, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 77; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:",
          "text": "We took a turn or two more, when, to my great surprise, I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To throw with a jerking motion; to skim."
      ],
      "id": "en-squir-en-verb-WXP9k-bb",
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        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ],
        [
          "jerk",
          "jerk"
        ],
        [
          "skim",
          "skim"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To throw with a jerking motion; to skim."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "squirr"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/skwɜː(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "squir"
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "squirred",
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      ]
    }
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        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)/1 syllable"
      ],
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          "ref": "1711 June 9 (Gregorian calendar), [Eustace Budgell], “TUESDAY, May 29, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 77; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:",
          "text": "We took a turn or two more, when, to my great surprise, I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames",
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        }
      ],
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        "To throw with a jerking motion; to skim."
      ],
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        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ],
        [
          "jerk",
          "jerk"
        ],
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          "skim",
          "skim"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete) To throw with a jerking motion; to skim."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/skwɜː(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "squirr"
    }
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}

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