Definitions for shirrs

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Spelling: [shur]

IPA: /ʃɜr/

Shirrs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in shirrs (hirrss).

Definitions for shirrs

noun

1. Also, shirring. a shirred arrangement, as of cloth.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
2. to bake (eggs removed from the shell) in a shallow dish or in individual dishes.

Origin of shirrs

First recorded in 1840-50; origin uncertain

Examples for shirrs

shirr some eggs, and before serving pour some tomato sauce, or pure, over the white of the eggs.

shirr′ing, decorative-shirred needlework; shirr′ing-string, a cord used to gather the threads together in shirred-work.

shirr, Shir, shėr, n. a puckering made in a fabric by parallel gathering-threads.