different between burr vs clack

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /b?/
• Homophones: Burr, brr
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English burre, perhaps related to Old English byrst (“bristle”). Cognate with Danish burre, borre (“burdock, burr”), Swedish borre (“sea-urchin”).

Noun

burr (plural burrs)

1. A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
2. A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.

   Synonym: sticker

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:

     But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.

3. A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
4. A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
5. A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
6. The ear lobe.
7. The knot at the bottom of an antler.

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Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, influenced by bur. Compare to French bruire

Noun

burr (plural burrs)

1. A rough humming sound.
2. A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.

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Verb

burr (third-person singular simple present burrs, present participle burring, simple past and past participle burred)

1. (transitive) To pronounce with a uvular "r".
2. (intransitive) To make a rough humming sound.
   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,

     The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was a burring sound, and the first thing she saw was a kind-looking old she-beaver sitting in the corner with a thread in her mouth working busily at her sewing machine, and it was from it that the sound came.

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Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Noun

burr (plural burrs)

1. (historical) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.

Etymology 4

From burl.

Noun

burr (plural burrs)

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of burl

Albanian

Alternative forms

• bunnë (Gheg)
• burrë (Standard, Tosk)

Noun

burr

1. (Gheg) husband
2. (Gheg) man

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“male offspring; son”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry, bring”). Cognate with Old English byre, Gothic ???????????????? (baur).

Noun

burr m

1. son
   1. (when preceded by genitive of j?rð) kenning for Thor.
      • verse 1 of the Þrýmskviða, (1936 translation by Henry Adams Bellows)

2. poet

Declension

Synonyms

• (son): sonr

Descendants

• Icelandic: bur

References

• burr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Yatzachi Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish burro.

Noun

burr (possessed xpurr)

1. donkey
2. donkey-load

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References

• Butler H., Inez M. (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de Yatzachi: Yatzachi el Bajo, Yatzachi el Alto, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 37)?^[6], second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 31

English

Etymology

From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klak?n? (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæk/

Noun

clack (plural clacks)

1. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
3. Chatter; prattle.

   • whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack

4. (colloquial) The tongue.

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Verb

clack (third-person singular simple present clacks, present participle clacking, simple past and past participle clacked)

1. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
2. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
4. (Britain) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
5. Dated form of cluck.
   • 1934, Gladys Bagg Taber, Late Climbs the Sun (page 30)

     Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.

   • 1964, Frances Margaret Cheadle McGuire, Gardens of Italy (page 57)

     We drive on between meadows of mown grass, through a pergola of vines, and so to an orchard of peaches, apples, and pears and a hen colony housed in neat modern cottages, the chickens clacking and scratching away […]

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