slur

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Compare Old Norse slóðra ‎(“to drag oneself along”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren ‎(“to trail in mud”). Related to dialect Norwegian sløra ‎(“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre ‎(“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /slɜː(r)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)

NounEdit

slur ‎(plural slurs)

1. An insult or slight.

   a racial slur‎

2. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
3. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
4. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
5. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

TranslationsEdit

insult or slight

• Finnish: herja, loukkaus (fi)
• German: Verunglimpfung (de) f, Beleidigung (de) f
• Maori: tīkai
• Polish: oszczerstwo (pl) n, obelga (pl) f
• Portuguese: insulto (pt)

• Russian: клеветническое ‎(klevetničeskoje) обвине́ние ‎(obvinénije) (klevetníčeskoje obvinénije) n, оскорби́тельный ‎(oskorbítelʹnyj) намёк ‎(namjók) (oskorbítelʹnyj namjók) m, инсинуа́ция (ru) f ‎(insinuácija)
• Spanish: denigración (es) f, insulto (es) m
• Turkish: hakaret (tr), aşağılama (tr)

set of notes

• Finnish: legato-jakso

symbol indicating a legato passage

• Dutch: legatoboog
• Finnish: sidekaari, legato-kaari
• French: liaison d'expression f, coulé (fr) m, legato (fr) m
• German: Bindebogen m
• Italian: legatura di portamento f, legatura di frase f, legatura di espressione f

• Portuguese: ligadura f
• Russian: лега́то (ru) n ‎(legáto)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
• Spanish: legato (es) m, ligadura de expresión f
• Swedish: bindebåge

Derived termsEdit

• ethnic slur
• racial slur

VerbEdit

slur ‎(third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)

1. To insult or slight.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)

2. To run together; to articulate poorly.

   to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk.‎

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

3. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)

4. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)

5. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
   • John Dryden (1631-1700)

     With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.

6. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
   • 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     to slur men of what they fought for

7. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Derived termsEdit

• slur over

TranslationsEdit

to insult or slight

• Finnish: herjata (fi), loukata (fi)

• Maori: tīkai
• Turkish: aşağılamak (tr)

to articulate poorly

• Finnish: sammaltaa (fi), sopertaa
• French: mal articuler
• German: undeutlich (de) reden (de)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

• Macedonian: слева ‎(sléva)
• Polish: bełkotać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: arrastar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: razvlačiti (sh)
• Swedish: sluddra (sv)

to play legato

• Finnish: sitoa (fi)

• Macedonian: слева ‎(sléva)

to soil, sully, to contaminate, disgrace

• Finnish: tahrata, loata (fi)

to cover over, disguise, conceal; to pass over with little notice

• Finnish: peittää (fi), piilottaa (fi), pitää salassa; sujauttaa (to pass over with little notice)

to cheat; to trick

• Finnish: huijata (fi), huiputtaa (fi)

printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle

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