Definitions for purr

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Spelling: [pur]

IPA: /pɜr/

Purr is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in purr (prru).

Definitions for purr

noun

1. the low, vibrating sound made by a cat by the contracting of the laryngeal muscles and the diaphragm as it breathes.
2. a sound resembling this.
3. the act of purring.

verb (used with object)

1. to express by or as if by purring.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
2. (of things) to make a sound suggestive of the purring of a cat:

Origin of purr

First recorded in 1595-1605; imitative

Examples for purr

And the Tom Cat said, “Can you curve your back, and purr and give out sparks?”

I came to the side of the punt and stroked her and she began to purr at once.

They could hear the purr of the taxicab as it dashed up the street.

The newspapers pounced on them with joy, as cats pounce and purr on catnip.

"I mean to hear the trial," continued Mrs. Garth, with a purr of satisfaction.

Charles-Norton half closed his eyes; his soul began to purr.

Move cautiously and reassuringly and the bear will purr contentedly.

“We always have fun,” she confided in her lilting Slovenian purr.

If there was an Oscar for performances by felines, Inside Llewyn Davis should rightfully have claimed that too, with a purr.

Instead, the tiger looked around, and gave a purr, and then a growl.