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Purler vs Burler - What's the difference?

purler | burler |

As nouns the difference between purler and burler

is that purler is (uk|colloquial) a headlong fall or tumble or purler can be (australia|colloquial) something extremely good while burler is one who burls or dresses cloth.

purler

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble.
  • He came a purler on the icy path.
  • * 1869 , “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland , page 172,
  • Dilston and Savernake: the latter led, and turned, but in trying to kill came down a purler , which completely knocked all the go out of him; Dilston took possession of the hare, and kept it, winning the course in hollow style.
  • * 1954 , British Broadcasting Corporation, , Volume 51, page 67,
  • Her French-speaking table in the dining-room is a riot of second-rate behaviour and dexterously aimed bread-pellets; the stairs outside her bedroom are relentlessly buttered and she comes purler' after ' purler .
  • * 1986 , Judith Saxton (), Family Feeling , 2012, unnumbered page,
  • Yet he was very sure that he had tripped and gone a purler just as he was leaving the Other Place . . . had that made him gash his forehead, once he was back in the pit?
  • * 2003 , Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read'', ''The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: And Other Stories , 2011, unnumbered page,
  • ‘You could hold the ladder,’ Mart said, ‘see I don?t come a purler .’
  • (UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong.
  • * 1867 , , 2006, page 60,
  • but, falling with a mighty crash, gave him a purler on the opposite side, and was within an inch of striking him dead with his hoof in frantic struggles to recover.
    Synonyms
    * (headlong fall or tumble) * (incapacitating blow) king hit (Australian)

    See also

    * come a cropper

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Alternative forms

    * pearler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , title=Top3 best games of all time , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=peter.ryan , date=May 12 , year=2000 , passage=The greatest game ever played is the one marketed with that tag by Australian Football Video:  the 1989 round 6 match at Prince's Park between Hawthorn and Geelong, an awesome display of the skills of the game.  It is doubtful whether two such great sides had ever graced a single season as the Hawks and the Cats did in 1989.  The return match in September was a bit of a purler too, as I recall. citation
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  • , title=Best way to transport wreck Syd-Tsv. , group=aus.motorcycles , author=George W , date=December 24 , year=2008 , passage=And just when I had a slight thought that there could be a "Lets be nice to George Week"
    And you come along with that purler . citation

    burler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who burls or dresses cloth.
  • (Webster 1913)