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Burg vs Burr - What's the difference?

burg | burr |

As a noun burg

is (north america) a city or town.

As a proper noun burr is

.

burg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (North America) A city or town.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Efficiency Expert , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=2009 , month=June , first=David , last=Thriault , author= , coauthors= , title=This Way In: The Sound and the Fury , volume=151 , issue=6 , page=6 , magazine=Esquire , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=2010 , month=Feb , first=Paige , last=Orloff , author= , coauthors= , title=Big Style on a (Little) Budget , volume=33 , issue=2 , page=84 , magazine=Country Living , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills. }}
  • (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.

    • Related terms

    * burgher * burghermaster * burgomaster * burgrave

    Anagrams

    * ----

    burr

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) burre, perhaps from (etyl) , from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
  • A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
  • A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
  • * Tomlinson
    • The graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs .
  • 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.
  • A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
  • The earlobe.
  • The knot at the bottom of an antler.
    • Synonyms
    * (kind of seed pod) sticker; bur
    Derived terms
    * deburr

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeia, influenced by bur.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rough humming sound.
  • A rolled "r".

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce with a rolled "r".
  • To make a rough humming sound.

    • Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
  • * :
    • And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere thorughoute the body more than a fadom / And whan syr Mordred felte that he had hys dethes wounde / He thryst hym self wyth the myght that he had vp to the bur of kynge Arthurs spere / And right so he smote his fader Arthur wyth his swerde holden in bothe his handes

    Etymology 4

    From burl.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British)
    • English onomatopoeias Geordie English