whirr
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /wɜː/ or IPA: /ʍɜː/ (especially Scottish English)
- (America) enPR: wûr, IPA: /wɝ/ or enPR: hwûr, IPA: /ʍɝ/ (in accents without the wine-whine merger)
whirr (whirrs, present participle whirring; past and past participle whirred)
- To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
- (intransitive) To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to make such a sound.
- (make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound): buzz, drone, hum, purr, whine, whistle, whizz
- (cause (something) to make such a sound):
whirr (plural whirrs)
- A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
- 2007, Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts, HarperCollins (2007), ISBN 9780061343827, page 212 ↗:
- Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.
- 2007, Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts, HarperCollins (2007), ISBN 9780061343827, page 212 ↗:
- A bustle of noise and excitement.
- (sibilant buzz or vibration): buzz, drone, hum, purr, whine, whistle, whizz
- (bustle of noise and excitement): bustle, hustle
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