Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
purr . - noun An obsolete form of
perry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The dunlin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A bird, the
dunlin .
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Examples
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They may always deceive, for you must trust them, as for instance, if you travel, to ask a bill of Particulars is to purre in a wasp's nest, you must pay what they ask as sure as if it were the assessment of
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[* Linceus ys a beaste so quike eyed that it wyll see thorow any wall] nother purre blynd.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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This is just a grandstand play by Obama, purre and simple.
Lone Star Times 2009
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