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Pup vs Pur - What's the difference?

pup | pur |

As a noun pup

is hump, hunch.

As an adjective pur is

pure.

pup

English

(wikipedia pup)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, shark and some other animals.
    • The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup .
  • A young, inexperienced person.
    • The new teacher is a mere pup .
  • Any cute dog, regardless of age.
    • My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
  • A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To give birth to pups.

    • See also

    * puppy * pup tent English palindromes ----

    pur

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (low murmuring sound as of a cat)
  • * 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
    • The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.

    Verb

  • * John G. C. Brainard
    • And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
  • * 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
    • It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur .
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