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Murk vs Murr - What's the difference?

murk | murr |

As nouns the difference between murk and murr

is that murk is poison while murr is (obsolete) a catarrh or murr can be (onomatopoeia|colloquial|furry fandom) a purr (produced by any animal).

As a verb murr is

(onomatopoeia|colloquial|of a person or animal|furry fandom) to purr.

murk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) merke, mirke, from (etyl) ‘dark’.

Alternative forms

* mirk * mark (dialectal)

Adjective

(er)
  • Dark, murky
  • * J. R. Drake
    • He cannot see through the mantle murk .
    Quotations
    * (mirk)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * gloom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
  • * 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=610682281&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+The+Magnificent+Ambersons;+illustrated+by+Arthur+William+Brown,+1918&query=+murking&id=TarMagn]
    • Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
    Derived terms
    * murky

    See also

    * muck

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * merk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
  • * 2010 , Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
    • That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
  • * 2011 , Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
    • He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.

    Anagrams

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    murr

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain. Perhaps imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A catarrh.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.12:
  • *:With them a Phthysique'' or consumption of the lungs is but an ordinary cough: A ''dysentery or bloody flux but a distemper of the stomacke; A pleurisie but a cold or murre ; and as they gently name them so they easily endure them.
  • * John Skelton
    • The woodhack that singeth 'chur', / Hoarsely, as he had the murr

    Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (onomatopoeia, colloquial, furry fandom) A purr (produced by any animal).
  • * 2003 March 30, "NallTWD" (username), FUR: "Boston Blues" (M/F- Lions)'', in fur.stories.erotica, ''Usenet :
    • Raion let out a contented murr ,
  • * 2004 , "Claudia" (username), STORY: The Three Sisters, part 8 ( Transform, Girl into Horse )'', in alt.sex.stories, ''Usenet :
    • Cathy rroww'ed like a cat in heat as her tom mated her, her breasts pressed deeply into the mattress, orgasming with a contented murr as the tom fertilized her
  • * 2007 , Teiran, The Hero , page 150:
    • The hyena let out a soft murr as the fox's paw gently rubbing in small circles across his forehead and down his neck. The gentle scratching felt good, so the hyena leaned into the paw.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (onomatopoeia, colloquial, of a person or animal, furry fandom) To purr.
  • * 1989 , Dawn Borrelli, Kate , page 101:
    • The cat murred and purred and tried to lick his face and David was filled with such happiness. All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.
  • * 1995 January 5, "Anne-Lise Pasch" (username), STORY: Retribution'', in alt.fan.furry, ''Usenet :
    • She murred in satisfaction.
  • * 2002', September 2, "sahd_ryoken" (username), ''*'''murrs * no shirt, jean shorts, and one hot dragon'', in alt.fan.dragons, ''Usenet
    • Derived terms
    * murrsuit ----