musical notation for a slur ( sense 4 and sense 5)
Middle English sloor ( “ thin or fluid mud ” ). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren ( “ to trail in mud ” ). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra ( “ to be careless, to scamp, dawdle ” ), Danish sløre ( “ to wobble, be loose ” ) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra ( “ to drag oneself along ” ).
slur ( plural )
mark, stain, or smear; ( by extension ) a slight occasion of reproach.
1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, , New York, N.Y.: The Woman in White. [ … ] Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [ … ] , published 1860, : OCLC 558180353 The undeserved slur which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever. An
insinuation or innuendo. A disparaging
insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
a racial slur
( music ) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
( music ) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
Coordinate term: tie
( obsolete ) A trick or deception. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
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insult or slight
оскърбление (bg) n ( oskǎrblenie ) Danish:
skældsord (da) n Finnish:
herja , (fi) loukkaus (fi) French:
insulte (fr) , f injure (fr) f German:
Verunglimpfung (de) , f Beleidigung (de) f Hungarian:
, sértő/ becsmérlő megjegyzés/ kifejezés , gyalázkodás ( informal ) leszólás Japanese:
蔑称 (ja) ( べっしょう, besshō ), 軽蔑 語 ( けいべつご, keibetsu-go ), 卑罵語 ( ひばご, hibago ) Maori:
oszczerstwo (pl) , n obelga (pl) f Portuguese:
insulto (pt) Russian:
клеветни́ческое обвине́ние n ( klevetníčeskoje obvinénije ), оскорби́тельный намёк m ( oskorbítelʹnyj namjók ), инсинуа́ция (ru) f ( insinuácija ) Spanish:
denigración (es) , f insulto (es) m Turkish: hakaret , (tr) aşağılama (tr)
symbol indicating a legato passage
slur ( third-person singular simple present , slurs present participle , slurring simple past and past participle )
insult or slight.
To run together; to
to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk. 2014 April 21, “ Subtle effects”, in , volume 411, number 8884: The Economist 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.
( music ) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical
Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred To
soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [ … ] Richard Royston, [ … ] , : OCLC 222263967 they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend [… ] To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
1662, [Samuel Butler], “ [The First Part of Hudibras ]”, in , London: Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. [ … ] [ … ] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, [ … ] , published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, : OCLC 963614346 to slur men of what they fought for ( printing , dated ) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms Edit
to soil, sully, to contaminate, disgrace
to cover over, disguise, conceal; to pass over with little notice
printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle
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