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slur
English
Etymology
From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Noun
slur (plural slurs)
- An insult or slight.
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- Coordinate term: tie
- (obsolete) A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Derived terms
- f-slur
Translations
Verb
slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)
- To insult or slight.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
Is melted into mere effeminacy?
- And how men slur him, saying all his force
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- to slur men of what they fought for
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms
- slur over
Translations
Further reading
- Slur (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- URLs, lurs
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disparage
English
Etymology
From Middle English disparage (noun), disparagen (verb), from Old French desparage (noun), desparagier (verb), from des- + parage (“equal rank, rank”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?pæ??d??/
Noun
disparage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
Translations
Verb
disparage (third-person singular simple present disparages, present participle disparaging, simple past and past participle disparaged)
- To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- To ridicule, mock, discredit. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
See also
- vilipend
- belittle
- denigrate
- excoriate
Further reading
- disparage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- disparage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- disparage at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French desparage; equivalent to dis- +? parage.
Alternative forms
- dysperage, disperage, desparage
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis?pa?ra?d?(?)/, /dis?parad?(?)/, /d?s-/
Noun
disparage (uncountable) (rare)
- Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
- Ignominy, shame; the state of lacking respect.
Descendants
- English: disparage
References
- “dispar??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.
Etymology 2
From Old French desparagier.
Verb
disparage
- Alternative form of disparagen.
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