curr

Imitative.

curr (third-person singular simple present currs, present participle curring, simple past and past participle curred)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl.
   • 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,

     The owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,

2. (archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat.

• thurr

A phonetic and semantic variant of thurr[1].

curr (first-person singular past tense curra, participle currur)

1. to prick up (ears)

Either a nominal derivative of curr 'to prick up'[2] or from the same root of Armenian սուր (sur, “sword”) and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 (hairus)[3].

curr m (indefinite plural curra, definite singular curri, definite plural currat)

1. high rock